Citations:praemium

English citations of praemium

• 1659, Town Council of Aberdeen, Rules regarding visitations, quoted in John Strong, A History of Secondary Education in Scotland, 1909, page 149

  Fyftlie, that he who macks best vers haue ane praemium efter it appeirs to be his ovne macking by examinatioune therone, alsweel as he that macks the best theme.

• 1723, Court of Chancery, DE COSTA v. SCANDRET. (2 P. Wms. 170.)

  The insured has not dealt fairly with the insurers in this case ; he ought to have disclosed to them what intelligence he had of the ship's being in danger, and which might induce him, at least, to fear that it was lost, though he had no certain account of it; for if this had been discovered, it is impossible to think, that the insurers would have insured the ship at so small a praemium as they have done, but either would not have insured at all, or would have insisted on a larger praemium, so that the concealing of this intelligence is a fraud.

• 1750, "An Essay on the Governing Causes of the Natural Rate of Interest", in Antoin E. Murphy, Chūhei Sugiyama, Monetary Theory, 1601-1758, 1997, page 14

  Lenders receive under the Name of Interest, is, in all Cases where there is Danger of losing a Praemium of Risque, and not of Use;