Witherby's dictionary of insurance 3th ed.

This dictionary is intended to help people who practice insurance or who need to read about it to understand the terms and abbreviations they may encounter. It is not encyclopaedic. the aim is to give the reader in a few words the meaning of each term defined, without going into grat detail. The main problem in compiling the vocabulary has been to decide where to draw the line. For example, there are a great many technical American terms but only a selection of them has been included. Many others are to be found in Lewis E. Davids' Dictionary of Insurance. Again, the marine insurer will need to know the vocabulary of ships ans ship construction. For this it would be necessary to go to R.H. Brown's Dictionary of Marine Insurance Terms and Clauses. Actuarial science has a vocabulary of its own which the dictionary has not attempted to cover. The aim has been to provide for the general practitioner in any class of insurance rather than for the highly specialised. To make the book more useful I have included not only abbreviations and difinitions but short notes on the principal institutions of insurance in the United Kingdom. In this new edition over 200 new abbreviations and definitions have been added. Other definitions and the notes on insurance institutions have been updated. I have removed some, but not all, obsolete terms as references to some, but not all, obsolete terms as references to some will still turn up at times. Insurance is constantly changing so that updating needs to be a continuous process. Suggestions for improvements or corrections will be welcomed. Meanwhile I hope that users of the dictionary will find it of some service.