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Nautical Publications
Marine insurance has a terminology all its own. This is not surprising when one considers the origins, the antiquity and traditional history of marine insurance, together with the entrenched conservatism of marine underwriters. It is not merely that archaic words and expressions, such as, bottomry and respondentia, have been retained (there is still sentiment in our business), but underwriters have been prone to misuse the language. For instance, by preferring "cancelment" to "cancellation". Then for the layman some words have a meaning different from ordinary or dictionary meaning. An etymologist could have good fun tracing the derivation of marine insurance words, such as, "average". Here we have a word which evenmeans something different according to whether it is used in marine or fire insurance. There is some authority for saying that in marine insurance this word is derived from the French "avarie", so it has no connection with "average" in its ordinary sense.
Mr. Brown's book, however, is not concerned with such intellectual exercises. Marine insurance impinges on evey branch of shipping practice, and on all those commercial activites concerned with the sale, transport and delivery of goods by sea, land or air. Consequenly, a variety of people are from time to time confronted with strange marine insurance expressions. For them Mr. Brown's dictionary should be a boon, as the simple alphabetical arrangement, and the concise definitions, make it an easily consulted work of reference.
