Report of the Committee on Insurance Law1905 - 32 pages |
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Page 12
... agent who reports to the home office or the department manager all the details with regard to the risk , and frequently upon receipt of such report the insurance is ordered cancelled ; the premium is remitted by the local agent to the ...
... agent who reports to the home office or the department manager all the details with regard to the risk , and frequently upon receipt of such report the insurance is ordered cancelled ; the premium is remitted by the local agent to the ...
Page 16
... maintained either personally or by correspondence , or through an agent by the citizens of one belligerent with the citizens of the other . " 66 Twice in the few lines quoted , is life 16 Hamilton also, in that same opinion (ibid. ...
... maintained either personally or by correspondence , or through an agent by the citizens of one belligerent with the citizens of the other . " 66 Twice in the few lines quoted , is life 16 Hamilton also, in that same opinion (ibid. ...
Page 17
... agent , said : 6 " Insurance is a commodity . Commodity ' is defined to be that which affords advantage or profit . Mr. Anderson , in his law dictionary , defines the word as ' convenience , privilege , profit , gain ; popularly , goods ...
... agent , said : 6 " Insurance is a commodity . Commodity ' is defined to be that which affords advantage or profit . Mr. Anderson , in his law dictionary , defines the word as ' convenience , privilege , profit , gain ; popularly , goods ...
Page 21
... states notice to the company's agent in a mode expressly prohibited by the policy is binding upon the com- pany ; in other states the terms of the policy control . Upon many questions the federal rule differs from that of the 21.
... states notice to the company's agent in a mode expressly prohibited by the policy is binding upon the com- pany ; in other states the terms of the policy control . Upon many questions the federal rule differs from that of the 21.
Page 26
... agent and their various operations become the objects of commercial regulation . " ( Per Mr. Justice Johnson in Gibbons vs. Ogden , supra . ) 6 " Commerce is defined to be an exchange of commodities . ' But this definition does not ...
... agent and their various operations become the objects of commercial regulation . " ( Per Mr. Justice Johnson in Gibbons vs. Ogden , supra . ) 6 " Commerce is defined to be an exchange of commodities . ' But this definition does not ...
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Page 27 - Commerce with foreign countries, and among the States, strictly considered, consists in intercourse and traffic, including in these terms navigation, and the transportation and transit of persons and property, as well as the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities.
Page 9 - The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstances.
Page 27 - It will not be denied that that portion of commerce with foreign countries and between the States which consists in the transportation and exchange of commodities is of national importance, and admits and requires uniformity of regulation. The very object of investing this power in the General Government was to insure this uniformity against discriminating state legislation.
Page 10 - Constitutional provisions do not change, but their operation extends to new matters as the modes of business and the habits of life of the people vary with each succeeding generation. The law of the common carrier is the same to-day as when transportation on land was by coach and wagon, and on water by canal boat and sailing vessel, yet in its actual operation it touches and regulates transportation by modes then unknown, the railroad train and the steamship. Just so is it with the grant to the national...
Page 17 - The subject to which the power is next applied is to commerce " among the several States." The word "among " means intermingled with. A thing which is among others is intermingled with them. Commerce among the States cannot stop at the external boundary line of each State, but may be introduced into the ulterior.
Page 19 - Whatever our individual views may be as to the deleterious or dangerous qualities of particular articles, we cannot hold that any articles which Congress recognizes as subjects of interstate commerce are not such, or that whatever are thus recognized can be controlled by State laws amounting to regulations, while they retain that character...
Page 26 - Commerce is a term of the largest import. It comprehends intercourse for the purposes of trade in any and all its forms, including the transportation, purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities...
Page 26 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 9 - This provision is made in a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Page 26 - Commerce, in its simplest signification, means an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labor, transportation, intelligence, care, and various mediums of exchange, become commodities, and enter into commerce; 230*] the subject, *the vehicle, the agent, and their various operations, become the objects of commercial regulation.