 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 712 pages
...originally drawn. The first paragraph of section 17 of the Negotiable Instrument act (Laws of 1907, p. 406,) fixes the law of this State on that subject, and is...and the words were neither ambiguous nor uncertain, so that the sum payable was $2500. The alteration of the figures, therefore, did not change the legal... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1878 - 366 pages
...ten shillings." This is sufficient as a bill for 251. 10*.' Explanation 1. — If the sum payable be expressed in words and also in figures, and there is a discrepancy between the two, the words prevail.3 ILLUSTRATION. A bill is drawn, " Pay C. or order two hundred pounds." In the margin... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...rate of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...rate of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise... | |
 | W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill (c). (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable (d). (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...rate of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...discrepancy between the two, the sum denoted by the words is amount payable. ',.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with rest, unless the instrument otherwise... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...a bill is bound to see .that these subsequent indorsements are in order. CLAUSE 9, SECTION 2. — " Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures, and there ia a discrepancy between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable." Attention is... | |
 | Oscar Borchardt - Banking law - 1883 - 392 pages
...according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2.) Where the sum payable i* expressed in words and also in figures, and there...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise... | |
 | South Australia - Law - 1884 - 330 pages
...rate of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise... | |
 | John Frederick Haynes - English law - 1884 - 736 pages
...rate of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise... | |
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Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures and there is a discrepancy between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable; but if the words are ambiguous or uncertain, reference may be had to the figures to fix the amount;... 
