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An essay to ascertain the value of leases and annuities for years and lives, and to estimate the chances of the duration of lives. Wherein are many observations on bills of mortality, etc / By Weyman Lee.

  • Weyman Lee
Date:
1738
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay to ascertain the value of leases and annuities for years and lives, and to estimate the chances of the duration of lives. Wherein are many observations on bills of mortality, etc / By Weyman Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE VIII. Showing, in the firft Column, the Rate of In- tereft, in the fecond, the Value of an Annu¬ ity for a Life of 30 Years Age, ex traded , from Mr. Hayes*s Tables: To which I have added, in the third Column, the Term of Years to which fuch Value correfponds, as ftated by Mr. Hayes himfolf Intereft.] Value. [Term of Years. 1 Y c 4 15 54 2 5 ' 5 13 12 22 j 6 I I 27 20 c> 7 09 8j l8 r 8 08 6 8 16 Mr. Hayes feems to me, in this Table, firft to have ftated to what Term a Life of 30, or any other Age, is equal, and from thence to have computed the Values: Now, in what Way of Thinking, or on what Grounds, he could in the firft Inftant fuppofe that one and the lame Life could be equal only to a Term of 16 Years, and at the fame Time be equal to a Term of 2.5 Years, I confels exceeds my Comprehenfion. N table
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