Note 586 — POLICY OF INSURANCE ON LIVES.

In a work lately published in Paris, entitled “Rapports et Consultations de Medicine legale, recueilles et publiées par J. Ristelheuber, D. M. Médecin en chef à l’hospital Civil de Strasbourg”, 8 vo. p. p. 172, the subject of insurance on lives and annuities, is amply considered; and the following case is fully detailed, which excited so much interest, some years ago, at Strasburgh. M. Frierd sold, on the 11th of March, 1809, a large sum in the funds for the purchase of an annuity on his own life. He was at the time of the bargain, and had been for ten years, afflicted with Hemiplegia, in consequence of an apoplectic seizure; and he died on the second day after the signing of the document. The question therefore is, whether M. Frierd, on the day on which he signed the papers, was, or was not, already under the influence of the disease to which he fell a victim thirty hours afterwards. The question was debated with much talent and ingenuity on both sides; and the volume before us contains the various reports, opinions, and arguments, written on the occasion.