A short account of the Society for Equitable Assurances on lives and survivorships.

  • Society for Equitable Assurances.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A short account of the Society for Equitable Assurances on lives and survivorships. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SHORT ACCOUNT OF T M £ SOCIETY * FOR EQUITABLE ASSURANCES, &c. Assurances upon lives, in the mod general acceptation, are, where Xhat?3 one party, in connderation of a certain fum either paid in hand, or to be paid annually by another party, aflures to that other party the payment of a much larger fum, after the de- ceafe of the perfon upon whofe life the allurance is made. And thefe affurances are grounded upon the expe&ancy of the continuance of life, which, although the lives of men, feparately taken,