Book excerpt: Excerpt from Legal Medicine, Vol. 2 Sometimes insurances are effected for a limited number of years, payment of the sum assured to be made only if the person die during the period of the insurance. Various other special contracts may also be entered into. The writing by which all these contracts are made is termed a policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.