Law and Custom
Insurance in Sixteenth-Century England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9359182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Ibbetson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291-307 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Legal History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-0365 • E-ISSN: 1744-0564 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01440360802461982 |
| OpenAlex | W2018376878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
A law of marine insurance began to emerge in England in the second half of the sixteenth century. A struggle between merchants and lawyers for jurisdiction over insurance disputes led first to the creation of a merchants’ court in London, and in 1601 of a hybrid court consisting of lawyers – both common and civil – and merchants. In the late 1570s, under pressure from the privy council, a substantial code of insurance was drawn up by London merchants, but it was never formally adopted. Within twenty years custom and practice had moved away from the letter of the rules which had been written down, and the opportunity to create a developed law of insurance was lost
General insurance · Insurance law · Insurance policy · Jurisdiction · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |