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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... RIGHTS OF THE AGENT. LECTURE XII. CONTENTS. $1. Agent has a lien on the policy. Lien defined--$2. Insurance broker has a lien for his general balance against bis immediate employer--y 3. But if he knows, or has reason to believe, that bis employer is himself an agent, his Hen will be confined to the sums due on the particular policy--$ 4. Case in illustration : Maanss v. Henderson--$ 5. A broker employed as sub-agent, liable to the party really assured--y 6. General lien of a mercantile agent--$ 7. What claims a general lien embraces--$ 8. Cases in which the agent has the substantial benefit of a lien on the ground of a mutual credit--$ 9. Lien embraces all moneys recoverable under the policy--$ 10. Waiver and revival of lien--$ 11. Lien of a mercantile agent covers the policy in the possession of the broker whom he employed--y 12. Surrender of a lien, a valid consideration of a parol promise to pay the debt to which the lien relates--y 13. Agent may be compelled to produce in evidence the policy on which he has a lien. Hunter v. Leathly--$ 14. Explanatory remarks on the preceding case--$ 15. Remedy of the broker against his principal for the recovery of the premium--$ 16. Same subject--$ 17. Rule established by the English decisions, not applicable to the United States--$ 18. Rights of the agent in his relations to the underwriter--$ 19. Entitled to set-off a roturn premium against the demands of the underwriter--y 20. This right only exists w hen he is the agent of both the parties; it ceases when his mutual agency has been determined--y 21. Case in illustration: Parker v. Smith--y 22. Right of the agent to set-off losses on the policy defined--$ 23. Wilson v. Creighton : remarks--$ 24. Grove v. Dubois--$ 25. Limitation of the doctrine in Grove v. Dubois--$26....
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