Description of risk clause

Some statements e.g. ‘the lorry will deliver coal,’ describe the risk rather than warrant it. The clause operates like an exclusion in that it suspends cover when the actual use is not as described. Cover reattaches when normal use, i.e. delivering coal, resumes. A warranty would terminate cover, not suspend it, at the moment of breach (Farr v. Motor Traders (1920)).

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