A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

book itself proves, in more than one place, that they are not all of

the same antiquity. The most correct edition is that published at Leyden in 1704[701]. Those writers who have pretended that insurance is mentioned in these Catalonian maritime laws have, perhaps, been led into this error, because, in an appendix to some of the common editions, there is a short account of insurance...