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The research for this study was done under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, as one of a number of similar inquiries into “legal history” in Wisconsin. As interpreted in the larger program of which this is a part, legal history is not a narrowly conceived study of the antiquities of technical legal doctrine, but is an investigation into the interplay of law and society-into the legal implementation of social and economic public policy.
As a study of the history of insurance law, this book focuses on the relationships between the evolving technical law and (1) the rapidly growing insurance business that it implements, and (2) the attitudes and purposes of society at large.
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