"On-some new forms of life assurance and endowment policies, and the conversion of life policies into endowment assurances, -the values of post obits and reversions, -valuations of policies of assurance, -divisions of bonus, etc., etc., -mathematical and moral probabilities, -advowsons and next presentations, -sickness valuations in friendly societies, -copyhold and church property questions, -minors' and children's settlement policies, -invalid life assurance, -the doctrine of compound interest. Preceded by the statutes and a digest of the leading decisions (over 350 in number) of the courts of law, arranged alphabetically according to the point of law involved, respecting the rights and liabilities of assurers under life assurance policies, also on the nature of the life assurance policy of the future; the necessity for life assurance policies being indisputable and free from conditions; the status, in case of war, of policies effected in American life offices transacting business in England, &c., &c." Includes indexes.