Guido Rossi,
University of Edinburgh, has published Insurance
in Elizabeth England: The London Code with Cambridge University Press
in its “Cambridge Studies in English Legal History” series. From the press:
English
insurance came into being almost entirely during the Elizabethan period.
However, the Great Fire of 1666 consumed most of London's mercantile document,
and therefore little is known about early English insurance. Using new archival
material, this study provides the first in-depth analysis of early English
insurance. It focuses on a crucial yet little-known text, the London Insurance
Code of the early 1580s, and shows how London insurance customs were first
imported from Italy, then influenced by the Dutch, and finally shaped in a
systematic fashion in that Insurance Code. The London Insurance Code was in
turn heavily influenced by coeval continental codes. This deep influence
attests the strong links between English and European insurance, and questions
the common/civil law divide on the history of commercial law.
Here is the
Table of Contents:
1.
Introduction
Part I.
Legal-Historical Background:
2. Some
remarks on the origins of English insurance
3.
Insurance in late sixteenth-century England
Part II.
The London Code:
4.
Preamble: sea-carriage and averages
5. The
making of the London Code
6. Object
of Insurance
7. Premium
8. The
parties
9. Risks
10. Ship
and voyage
11.
Recovery
12.
Abandonment to the insurers
13.
Reinsurance
14. Life
insurance
Concluding
remarks.
Full
information is available here.
