 | Samuel Owen - 1854 - 398 pages
...judging of the intent by the settled rules of interpretation, it is the duty of the Court to adopt. No rule, in the interpretation of a policy, is more...cases, it must be liberally construed in favor of the assured, so аз not to defeat without a plain necessity, his claim to the indemnity, which, in making... | |
 | John Duer, New York (State). Superior Court (New York) - 1855 - 738 pages
...judging of the intent by the settled rules of interpretation, it is the duty of the court to adopt. No rule, in the interpretation of a policy, is more...cases, it must be liberally construed in favor of the assured, so as not to defeat without a plain necessity, his claim to the indemnity, which, in making... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1906 - 712 pages
...an insurance policy must be expressed or so clearly implied that it cannot be misconstrued. Policies must be liberally construed in favor of the insured, so as not to defeat, without plain necessity, a claim for indemnity; and where there is a doubt or uncertainty in the terms of the... | |
 | 1894 - 922 pages
...plaintiff. The rule laid down by Mr. May, in his work on Insurance (3d ed.), section 175, is as follows: "No rule in the interpretation of a policy is more...imperative and controlling than that which declares, in all cases, it must be liberally construed in favor of the insured, so as not to defeat, without... | |
 | 1876 - 816 pages
...which gives the greater indemnity should prevail : May on Insurance, sect. 174. !Xone of these rules is more fully established or more imperative and controlling than that which declares that it must be liberally construed in favor of the insured, so as not to defeat, without* plain necessity,... | |
 | 1876 - 972 pages
...that which gives the greater indemnity should prevail. May on Insurance, sec. 174. None of these rules is more fully established, or more imperative and controlling, than that which declares that it must be liberally construed in favor of the insured, so as not to defeat, without a plain necessity,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1878 - 1044 pages
...insurer, and liberally in favor of the insured. A modern writer on insurance thus states the rule : " No rule, in the interpretation of a policy, is more...not to defeat without a plain necessity his claim to indemnity, which, in making the insurance, it was his object to secure." May on Insurance 182. Bearing... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 860 pages
...that which gives the greater indemnity should prevail. May on Insurance, § 174. None of these rules is more fully established or more imperative and controlling than that which declares that it must be liberally construed in favor of the insured, so as not to defeat, without a plain necessity,... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1878 - 976 pages
...be given, that which gives the greater indemnity shall prevail." Again, at paragraph 175, he says: "No rule, in the interpretation of a policy, is more fully established, or OF WEST VIRGINIA. more imperative and controlling, than that which declares, that in all cases it must... | |
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No rule in the interpretation of a policy is more fully established, or more imperative and controlling, than that which declares that in all cases it must be liberally construed in favor of the insured, so as not to defeat, without a plain necessity,... 
