Short description
General principles of insurance law is a student work extracted from the Law of South Africa volume 12: Insurance.
Long description
General principles of insurance law is a student work extracted from the Law of South Africa volume 12: Insurance. This work contains a systematic and full exposition of the law of insurance in South Africa, providing an overview of insurance law for students of mercantile law. This work analyses the general principles of insurance, and is a useful learning tool, particularly regarding its research of the Roman-Dutch authorities.
Table of contents
Prescribed at UNISA (University of South Africa) for :Mercantile Law (MINLW19) by lecturer Engela Catharina Schlemmer; Mercantile Law (MINLW2A) by lecturer Johan Petrus Van Niekerk; Mercantile Law (LML405S) by lecturer Stephanus Phillipus Van Zyl
- Introduction to and history and sources of insurance law, Basis of insurance, Object of insurance
- Insurable interest, Essentials of a contract of insurance, Formation of an insurance contract, Requirements for a valid contract of insurance, Misrepresentation, Contents and interpretation of an insurance contract, Nature and operation of obligations arising from an insurance contract, Risk, Vesting and contents of claim to indemnification or satisfaction
- enforcement of claim,Premium, Insurer's rights based on warranties, Insurer's rights to subrogation and salvage, Rights and duties of third parties under an insurance contract in favour of a third party
- cession and assignment, Performance and reinstatement by the insurer
- termination of the insurance, Insurance intermediaries, Double insurance, over
- insurance, under
- insurance and reinsurance, Short
- term insurance, including marine insurance, Long
- term insurance, Supervision of insurance business, Bibliography, Table of cases, Table of statutes, Index