# Life Assurance Act 1774, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

An Act for regulating Insurances upon Lives, and for prohibiting all such Insurances except in cases where the Persons insuring shall have an Interest in the Life or Death of the Persons insured.
Preamble.
Whereas it hath been found by experience that the making insurances on lives or other events wherein the assured shall have no interest hath introduced a mischievous kind of gaming:

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo3/14/48/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/life-assurance-act-1774/introduction
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