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Chief agent

the insurer by employing or causing to be employed insurance agents on behalf of the insurer. [Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938), s. 2(5A)]

Insurer

Insurer. The person assuring against loss. The word 'insurer' in s. 2D of the Insurance Act, 1938 means a person who was carrying on the business of insurance but has closed it, Vanguard Fire and

Investment company

means a company whose principal business is the acquisition of shares, stocks, debentures or other securities. [Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938), s. 2(10A)]

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Managing agent

shall nevertheless be regarded as managing agent for the purposes of s. 32 of this Act. [Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938), s. 2(13)]

Marine insurance business

and includes any other risks customarily included among the risks insured against in marine insurance policies. [Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938), s. 2(13A)]

Quota

renters and exhibitors respectively are obliged to include in any one year up to the end of March, 1938, for renting or exhibiting films in that year. In 1937 and 1938 the proportion in either case is

Workman

work or otherwise, and whether the contract is expressed or implied, oral or in writing. [Employers' Liability Act, 1938 (24 of 1938), s. 2 (a)] A person doing clerical work in the industry was treated as a

General Insurance business

miscellaneous insurance business, whether carried on singly or in combination with one or more of them. [Insurance Act, 1938 (4 of 1938), s. 2 (6B)]

Life insurance business

Life insurance business, the definition of 'life insurance business' given in s. 2(11) of the Insurance Act, 1938 clearly includes, by a deeming provision, the business of granting of annuities upon human life within the expression

Toll thorough, toll traverse

Toll thorough, toll traverse, the expression 'toll thorough' means where a town prescribes to have toll for every beast that goes through their town. The term 'toll traverse' means where one claims to have an amount...

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