A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange: Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and Checks |
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... says the present learned Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , " is as high as can be had , next to the decision of a Court of Justice in this country ; his writings are considered by Sir William Jones as equal , in point of luminous ...
... says the present learned Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , " is as high as can be had , next to the decision of a Court of Justice in this country ; his writings are considered by Sir William Jones as equal , in point of luminous ...
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... says Lord Campbell , " a general usage has been judicially ascertained and recognized , it becomes part of the law merchant , which Courts of justice are bound to know and re- cognize . " Brandao v . Barnett , 3 C. B. 530 , Dom . Proc ...
... says Lord Campbell , " a general usage has been judicially ascertained and recognized , it becomes part of the law merchant , which Courts of justice are bound to know and re- cognize . " Brandao v . Barnett , 3 C. B. 530 , Dom . Proc ...
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... says Lord Coke , " extend to charters and evidences con- cerning freehold , or inheritance , or obligations , or ... say , its indorsement assigns the property , but does not transfer the contract . Thompson v . Dominy , 14 M. & W. 403 ...
... says Lord Coke , " extend to charters and evidences con- cerning freehold , or inheritance , or obligations , or ... say , its indorsement assigns the property , but does not transfer the contract . Thompson v . Dominy , 14 M. & W. 403 ...
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... says Lord Mansfield , are not goods , not securities nor documents for debts , nor are they so es- teemed ; but are treated as money , as cash , in the ordinary course and transactions of business , by the general consent of mankind ...
... says Lord Mansfield , are not goods , not securities nor documents for debts , nor are they so es- teemed ; but are treated as money , as cash , in the ordinary course and transactions of business , by the general consent of mankind ...
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... says Lord Tenterden , " that it is a discredit to a person , and therefore injurious , in fact , to have a draft refused payment for so small a sum ; for it shows that the banker had very little confidence in the customer . It is an act ...
... says Lord Tenterden , " that it is a discredit to a person , and therefore injurious , in fact , to have a draft refused payment for so small a sum ; for it shows that the banker had very little confidence in the customer . It is an act ...
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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.