 Where a signature is forged or made without the authority of the person whose signature it purports to be, it is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the instrument, or to give a discharge therefor, or to enforce payment thereof against any party...  Laws of Barbados - Page 212by Barbados - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1891 - 840 pages
...is wholly inoperative, and that no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor, or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto, can be acquired through or under that signature except in the case of an estoppel. Nothing but legislation could have relieved bankers from the liability... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1897 - 688 pages
...provisions of this Act," and concludes as follows : " Unless the party against whom it is sought to " enforce payment of the bill is precluded from setting up the forgery," clearly pointing to this estoppel. And under this Sec. 5.r> it is obvious that the only rights the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...signature is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto...in this section shall affect the ratification of an unauthorised signature not amounting to a forgery. 25. A signature by procuration operates as notice... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...signature is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto...Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the ratif1cation of an unauthorised signature not amounting to a forgery. It has been held that if the... | |
 | W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...inoperative, and no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment i24. thereof against any party thereto can be acquired...(«). Provided that nothing in this section shall effect the ratification of an unauthorised signature not amounting to a forgery (6). (a.) This section... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...signature is wholly inoperative, nnd no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto...whom it is sought to retain or enforce payment of tho bill is precluded fiom setting up tho forgery or want of authority. Provided that nothing in this... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...signature is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto can be acquired through or t1nder that signature, unless the party against whom, it is sought to retain or enforce payment of... | |
 | Oscar Borchardt - Banking law - 1883 - 392 pages
...signature is wholly inoperative. and no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto...in this section shall affect the ratification of an unauthorised signature not amounting to a forgery. Procuration 25. A signature by procuration operates... | |
 | James Walter Smith - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1884 - 164 pages
...signature is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto...in this section shall affect the ratification of an unauthorised signature not amounting to a forgery. 30. S. 25. A signature by procuration operates as... | |
 | John Frederick Haynes - English law - 1884 - 736 pages
...signature is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the bill or to give a discharge therefor or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto...in this section shall affect the ratification of an unauthorised signature, not amounting to a forgery. 25. A signature by procuration operates as notice... | |
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