The Law and Practice of Marine Insurance Deduced From a Critical.

ISBN-13: 9781584778172; ISBN-10: 1584778172. "The Author Seems to Have Exhausted the Whole Learning on the Subject": James Kent Duer, John. The Law and Practice of Marine Insurance Deduced From a Critical Examination of the Adjudged Cases, the Nature and Analogies of the Subject, and the General Usage of Commercial Nations. Originally published: New York: J.S. Voorhies, 1845-1846. 2 Vols. xxxiv, 775; xxiii, 808 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778172. Attractive smyth sewn blue cloth bound hardcovers with contrasting red and green gilt stamped spine labels. New. $150. * Reprint of the only edition. This monumentally detailed work stands as the first definitive, comprehensive American treatise dedicated exclusively to marine insurance law. A pioneer in comparative jurisprudence, Duer uniquely synthesized Anglo-American case law with early continental European commercial customs and maritime ordinances. His groundbreaking analysis advanced a distinct American standard for the doctrine of "utmost good faith" (uberrimae fidei) and propounded a strict test for the "materiality of risk" that remains a core point of divergence between U.S. and British insurance law today. This transatlantic legal impact earned the treatise high praise from seminal jurist James Kent, who celebrated Duer for "exhausting the whole learning on the subject" in a "glowing, perspicuous, and eloquent style.".…