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Double the usual monetary award from a policy as a result of certain conditions occurring, usually the accidental death of the insured. … [Read more...] about DOUBLE INDEMNITY

contracts. Where the insured makes, two insurances on the same risk, and the same interest. 12 Mass. 214. It differs from re-insurance in this, that it is made by the insured, with a view of receiving a double satisfaction in case of loss; whereas a re-insurance is made by a former insurer, his executors or assigns, to protect himself and his estate from a risk to which they … [Read more...] about DOUBLE INSURANCE

A criminal defendant may not be tried twice for a crime when the defendant's life and liberty were in jeopardy and the defendant could have been convicted at that first trial. A prosecutor may not have a second bite at an apple where the first attempt to convict a criminal defendant failed through no fault of the defendant. … [Read more...] about DOUBLE JEOPARDY

practice. In cases where a statute gives a party double or treble damages, the jury are to find single damages, and the court to enhance them, according to the statute Bro. Ab. Damages, pl. 70; 2 Inst. 416; 1 Wils. 126; 1 Mass. 155. In Sayer on Damages, p. 244, it is said, the jury may assess the statute damages and it would seem from some of the modern cases, that either the … [Read more...] about DOUBLE OR TREBLE DAMAGES

The alleging, for one single purpose, two or more distinct grounds of defence, when one of them would be as effectual in law, as both or all. Vide Duplicity. … [Read more...] about DOUBLE PLEA