(i) Particular type of Insurance, such as the liability “line.” (ii) All types of Insurance written for a property owner, such as all lines for ABC Manufacturing. (iii) Amount of Insurance on a given property, such as a Rs. 10,00,000 line on XYZ manufacturing’s building. (iv) Gross line-total amount of Insurance accepted by an insure on individual risk, including the amount Reinsured. (v) Net Line: amount of coverage retained by the Ceding Insurer on an individual risk in a surplus Reinsurance treaty or the maximum amount of loss on a particular risk to which an Insurer will expose itself without Reinsurance.

A schedule included in a reinsurance treaty contract showing the limits of liability to be written by a ceding company for different classes of risk and (usually) also showing the amount of each respective limit (stated as a number of “lines”) which can be ceded to proportional reinsurance treaties.