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The author of these pages will doubtless render himself liable to a charge of great presumption in undertaking to write so small a treatise relating to Marine Insurance with the hope that it will be of any practical use to those connected with such matters, regard being had to the number of books already written upon the subject, books too which are both complete and exhaustive, and have the merit of acknowledged worth and standard authority.
Authors reasons for penning the following pages are, the acknowledged want of some book of this kind frequently expressed by shipowners themselves. They complain, with truth, that all existing works upon Marine Insurance are too expensive, and too learned for shipowners generally; so that whenever they are urged by necessity to consult such works, they find themselves doomed to encounter a multitude of quotations and references to cases, to be found only in the voluminous reports, which fill up the libraries of those learned in the law.
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