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Issues: Whether an alleged oral agreement to issue a policy of sea insurance was enforceable in the absence of an expressed sea policy under the Indian Stamp Act, 1899.
Analysis: Section 7 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 made a contract for sea insurance invalid unless expressed in a sea policy. The statutory requirement was mandatory and prohibitory, not a mere procedural safeguard or a provision that could be waived by omission to plead it. An agreement for sea insurance concluded only by word of mouth, without the issuance of a policy, could not be enforced by the Court, regardless of the pleadings below. The evidence also did not establish a concluded contract on the facts, as the alleged declaration and acceptance were inconsistent with ordinary underwriting practice and with the withdrawal of the quotation before any effective acceptance.
Conclusion: The alleged agreement was unenforceable, and the claim failed.
Final Conclusion: The appeal could not succeed because the asserted sea-insurance arrangement was barred by statute and was not proved as a binding contract.
Ratio Decidendi: A contract for sea insurance is unenforceable unless it is expressed in a sea policy, and the statutory bar cannot be avoided by waiver, omission to plead, or oral proof alone.
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