A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange: Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and Checks |
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... ment . 24 16 16 • • • 17 • 25 18 18 • When several must join in drawing check • 25 19 From what period Customers debited 25 • 25 26 • . 26 • 26 26 • Banker's obligation to pay Time of presentment • As between Holder and Drawer 19 As ...
... ment . 24 16 16 • • • 17 • 25 18 18 • When several must join in drawing check • 25 19 From what period Customers debited 25 • 25 26 • . 26 • 26 26 • Banker's obligation to pay Time of presentment • As between Holder and Drawer 19 As ...
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... ment of Inland Bills of Exchange · 474 476 17 GEO . III . c . 30 , ss . 1 , 2 , 4 , made perpetual by 27 GEO . III . c . 16 . An Act for further restraining the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Inland Bills of Exchange , under a ...
... ment of Inland Bills of Exchange · 474 476 17 GEO . III . c . 30 , ss . 1 , 2 , 4 , made perpetual by 27 GEO . III . c . 16 . An Act for further restraining the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Inland Bills of Exchange , under a ...
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... ment of Annuities . [ 10th August , 1854 ] . 17 & 18 VICT . c . 125 , s . 87 . An Act for the further Amendment of the Process , Practice and Mode of Pleading in and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law at ...
... ment of Annuities . [ 10th August , 1854 ] . 17 & 18 VICT . c . 125 , s . 87 . An Act for the further Amendment of the Process , Practice and Mode of Pleading in and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law at ...
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... ment . As a declaration of trust . checks , bills , promissory notes , and other securities for money , may be taken in execution . The money and bank notes are to be handed over by the sheriff to the execution creditor , and the ...
... ment . As a declaration of trust . checks , bills , promissory notes , and other securities for money , may be taken in execution . The money and bank notes are to be handed over by the sheriff to the execution creditor , and the ...
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... ment of trade , and ought , therefore , to receive a liberal " construction . It is for the advantage of commerce that " foreign , as well as inland bills , should be negotiable ” ( ƒ ) . It has been suggested to be a doubtful point ...
... ment of trade , and ought , therefore , to receive a liberal " construction . It is for the advantage of commerce that " foreign , as well as inland bills , should be negotiable ” ( ƒ ) . It has been suggested to be a doubtful point ...
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Common terms and phrases
18 Vict 25 Vict 5th American edition acceptance acceptance supra protest acceptor accommodation bill action agent agreement amount authority bank notes Bank of England banker Bayley bearer on demand bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bill payable bills and notes Bing blank Byles on Bills Camp chose in action common law Company consideration contract Court creditor debt debtor defendant delivery discharge Dowl draft or order drawer East effect evidence Exch executor firm foreign bill fraud held holder Ibid illegal indorsed instrument joint Jones liable Lord Ellenborough maker ment Moore negotiable negotiable instruments note payable paid partner partnership party payable on demand payable to bearer payee plaintiff Pleading presentment principal promise to pay promissory note protest Raym recover S. C. h Scott Smith Stamp Act Stark statute Stra supra surety Taunt third person tion transfer unless value received void
Popular passages
Page 59 - That no action shall be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any promise made, after full age, to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification, after full age...
Page 498 - That upon all debts or sums certain payable at a certain time, or otherwise, the jury on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor, at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest, from the time when such debts or sums certain were payable, if such debts or sums certain be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time...
Page 497 - Acts, or this Act, as to one or more of such joint contractors, or executors, or administrators, shall nevertheless be entitled to recover against any other or others of the defendants, by virtue of a new acknowledgment or promise, or otherwise, judgment may be given and costs allowed for the plaintiff, as to such defendant or defendants against whom he shall recover, and for the other defendant or defendants against the plaintiff.
Page 507 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to the Loan or Forbearance of any Money upon Security of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Estate or Interest therein.
Page 522 - We command you, That within eight days after the service of this writ on you, inclusive of the day of such service, you do cause...
Page 527 - Enactments or either of them, so as to be chargeable in respect or by reason only of any written Acknowledgment or Promise made and signed by any other or others of them...
Page 494 - By that act it is declared that "after the 1st of August, 1821, if any person shall accept a bill of exchange payable at the house of a banker or other place, without further expression in his acceptance, such acceptance shall be deemed and taken to be, to all intents and purposes, a general acceptance of such bill. But if the acceptor shall, in his acceptance, express, that he accepts the bill payable at a banker's house or other place...
Page 104 - ... for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available...
Page 461 - ... being in the order and disposition of the bankrupt, with the consent of the true owner, and that the assignees were therefore entitled to them.
Page 506 - ... or at the time of executing or levying such execution or attachment, notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed ; provided also that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to give validity to any payment made by any bankrupt being a fraudulent preference of any creditor or creditors of such bankrupt, or to any execution founded on a ^judgment on a warrant of attorney, or cognovit given by any . bankrupt by way of such fraudulent preference [*473] H.