Note 246-12 — Chapter II

This much, however, is clear, that the life insurance companies of the present day cannot rely on the calculations made in earlier stages of civilization; on Süssmilch's, for instance; and just as little on those of the old Romans in L. Digest. ad Leg. Falcidiam. Compare Schmelzer, De Probabilitate Vitae ejusque Usu forensi, 1788.