By Christopher Gravett
The fifteenth century used to be a time of switch for knighthood. Knights now not fought for his or her lords in go back for land, because the feudal summons had lengthy earlier than given solution to a method of contracts. in addition, many knights now most popular the position of landowner, man-about-town or parliamentary consultant. in spite of the fact that, this was once additionally the age of the knight in plate armour, of the conflict of Agincourt and the conquests of Henry V, and of the Wars of the Roses, the bloody internecine fight that tore medieval England aside. during this name Christopher Gravett describes the lifetime of a fifteenth century knight, his apparatus and stories from his earliest days as a squire via to his studies at the battlefields of britain and France.
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Das Interesse an diesen über den Versicherungswert im Sinne von Ziffer 6 ADS Güterversicherung 1973 hinausgehenden Teilen der Versicherungssumme entsteht jedoch erst später. Werden die Güter nun von einem Schaden betroffen, bevor das versicherbare Interesse an diesen Teilen der Versicherungssumme ent standen ist, so kann bezüglich dieser Summen auch kein Schaden entstehen und der Versicherte deshalb auch keine Ersatzleistung beanspruchen. Dieser Grundsatz entsprach schon stets den ADS (Vgl. Ritter-Abraham, Vorbemerkungen IX Vorteilsausgleichung, Anm.
SchlieBlich muB noch darauf hingewiesen werden, daB der Versicherungsschutz sich immer nur auf solche Schäden bezieht, die an der Substanz der versicherten Sache eintreten oder die sich als versicherte Kosten in den von den ADS bestimmten Fällen darsteIlen. (Über den Kausalzusammenhang zwischen Gefahr und Schaden vgl. unten B. I. 2b).