Excerpt from The Law of Fire Insurance The Author has endeavoured, in the present volume, to ofi'er to the reader a view of the Law of Fire Insurance as it now exists, and as applied to the practice of Insurance Offices. Ohe imagines that such a work is wanted, and he trusts that it may be useful. This is, indeed, the only consolation of the text-writer - for, like a child digging castles in the sand, he sees each succeeding wave of judicial decisions obliterate his labours, until the lapse of a few years renders his book all but valueless, and it sinks like an old newspaper into a mere record of the past. It is very true that the same fate awaits with increasing certainty the writer in almost every other department of knowledge. The extension of education, and the advances that are every day made in science and criticism, have so multiplied books and authors, that it is only at very rare intervals that the publeation can be expected of a stand work, that will not at no distant date oe' superseded by some more perfect production. The labours of the ten-writer have, however, many uses, not only in informmg the student, and assisting the practi tioner, but in so bringing together the authorities as to detect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.