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3. If the goods should be released, the ship condemned, and the cargo 

 therefore discharged : 



a. the risk of such discharge and storage and forwarding to 

 original destination by other conveyances? 



b. any ch arges arising therefröm? 



4. Loss of market in consequence of the delayed delivery? 



5. The cost of defending the action in a price court? 



Copy. 



London & Provincial Marine & General Insurance Company, Limited. 



~ . London 19 th December 1904. 



Dear birs, 



Ref erring to your letter of the 17 th instant, asking for a reply to the 

 queries which you put before us with regard to War risk, I have to point 

 out that to do so would necessitate giving our opinion on subjeets which 

 have puzzled Underwriters and Lawyers from time immemorial. We would 

 rather not attempt the task. 



Each case as it arises, in case of aeeident, must be considered by 

 Underwriters on its own merits. 



Experience of the past, owing to the high-handed action of belligerents 

 of the present time, is quite useless. 



Yours faithfully 



HENRY S. NOOLEY 

 Secretary. 



London Assurance Corporation. December 1904. 



Question 1. 

 I am afraid I am not enough of a lawyer to answer the question you 

 ask as to the liability of Underwriters under the war clause: If a vessel is 

 seized „technically" the assured would certainly be entitled to tender notice 

 of abandonment and if it were not aeeepted by underwriters and a writ 

 were issued immediatly, the circumstances existing at the date of the writ 

 would be those by which a decision would be arrived at as to whether the 

 seizure constituted a loss under the terms of the policy. 



Question 2. 

 I very much doubt whether, in the circumstances you state, Under- 

 writers would be liable for loss under the four headings you name, but I 

 am not competent to speak dogmatically on the subjeet. 



Copy. 



December 1904. 



With reference to the printed slip enclosed by you which I return 



therein, I agree with the reply suggested therein to Question A. The fact 



