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Page iii - and to ascertain its true position, the labour attending such an inquiry is very arduous; and from the immense mass of figures to be dealt with, all such investigations require to be very carefully checked to
Page iii - use, the method of valuing Policies may be sufficiently curt and convenient for ordinary practical purposes ; but when the Actuary has to investigate the affairs of a
Page viii - payable at the end of the year in which an assigned life may fail,
Page iii - these impressions that the idea of forming a Table of the Value of Policies first suggested itself to the author
Page iii - and the concurrent testimony of practical men, having tended to the adoption of the Carlisle
Page vi - given by Messrs Gray, Smith, and Orchard, in their " Assurance and Annuity Tables,