 | 1869 - 492 pages
...London Life Association, with a proviso, making it void if the assured should die by his own hands, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel. In 1838 the assured threw himself into the Thames, and the questions submitted to the jury were: first,... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts, Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan - 1850 - 1168 pages
...that the parties used them in a more limited sense (A) : " and to the like effect Tiinlol. CJ, says, " The expression ' dying by his own hands ' is, in fact,...the terms, ' shall die by suicide, or by the hands ot justice or in consequence of a duel,' surely no doubt could have arisen that a felonious suicide... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger - 1845 - 880 pages
...unless licence be obtained from a court of directors of the said society, or shall die by his own hands, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel, or if the age of the said assured does now exceed thirty-six years, or if the said assured be now afflicted... | |
 | George Morley Dowdeswell - 1846 - 192 pages
...Borrodaile v. Hunter (a), it seems to have been treated as certain, that if the exception had run in these terms, " shall die by suicide, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel," a felonious suicide would liave been intended. In that case the exception ran thus — " or shall die... | |
 | 1848 - 646 pages
...of ],000¿., the conditions of which were, among others, that if he should die " by his own hands, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel," the policy should be void. By indenture, of the 26th of June, 1828, Mr. Borrodaile assigned the policy,... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1847 - 490 pages
...unless license be obtained from a court of directors of the said society, or shall die by his own handt, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel, or 'if the age of the assured does not exceed thirty-six, or if the said assured be now afflicted with... | |
 | 1848 - 1170 pages
...duelling or the hands of justice," except that in that case the words were " die by his own hands, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel," so that the verb " die" applied to all the members of the sentence ; whereas here the words " commit... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 328 pages
...not so. There the words of the policy were, "that, in case the assured shall die by his own hands, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel, this policy shall be void ;" and from the remarks made by ERSKINE, J., on these words in the course... | |
 | Charles John Bunyon - 1854 - 426 pages
...own hands," was merely a translation into English of the word of Latin origin, " suicide," and that, if the exception had run in the terms " shall die by suicide," &o., no doubt could haTe arisen that a felonious suicide was intended. In Clift v. Schwabe,(<) however... | |
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... the policy should be void if " the assured should die by his own hands, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel. 
