no cure, no pay

no cure, no pay
The expression is known principally from its use on Lloyd’s of London’s Standard Form of Salvage Agreement; cf. the earlier no purchase, no pay and similar proverbs.

1800 J. COBB Ramah Droog I iv You’ll never have reason to complain of my want of confidence. Besides, the worst come to the worst..‘No cure, no pay.’

1836 W. C. RISLEY Early Victorian Squarson 13 (16 Dec.) ..a travelling doctor of smoaking chimneys..made his appearance here. I agreed to buy his skill..on the principle of No Cure, No Pay.

1907 A. R. KENNEDY Treatise..Law of Civil Salvage (ed. 2) 270 (heading) Salvage agreement on basis of Lloyd’s standard form of ‘no cure—no pay’ agreement.

1933 Reports of Tax Cases (Inland Revenue) XVII. 352 The charges of those accountants..were made on the ‘No cure, no pay’ principle.

1982 Listener 6 May 10 The divers..will earn their money... If they find nothing, they will receive nothing... No cure, no pay.


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