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acceptance acceptor according action adopted allowed alternative American amount appears apply Article authority Bank bill of exchange bill or note bills and notes capacity Code conflict of laws consideration contract Convention courts deemed demand determined discharged dishonour domicile drawer drawn due course effect England English entered execution exist express fact fixed foreign formal French German give given governing holder holder in due honor indicated indorser interest International issue lettre de change lex loci contractus liable matter maturity means ment N. I. L. sec negotiable non-payment notice obligation original paid paiement party payable performance person place of payment presentment principal protest provisions question reasonable recourse reference regards relating respect result rule sight signature signed stipulation subsequent sufficient thereof tion Uniform Law United unless validity
Popular passages
Page 214 - A cheque is a Bill of Exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Promissory Note. — A Promissory Note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed...
Page 181 - An unqualified order or promise to pay is unconditional within the meaning of this act, though coupled with — 1. An indication of a particular fund out of which reimbursement is to be made, or a particular account to be debited with the amount; or 2. A statement of the transaction which gives rise to the instrument. But an order or promise to pay out of a particular fund is not unconditional.
Page 185 - ... delivery may be shown to have been conditional, or for a special purpose only, and not for the purpose of transferring the property in the instrument.
Page 29 - But where the instrument is in the hands of a holder in due course, a valid delivery thereof by all parties prior to him so as to make them liable to him is conclusively presumed.
Page 230 - Where a bill is addressed to two or more drawees who are not partners, presentment must be made to them all...
Page 247 - Where a banker in good faith and without negligence receives payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself, and the customer has no title, or a defective title, thereto, the banker shall not incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment.
Page 243 - The notarial act of honor must be founded on a declaration made by the payer for honor or by his agent in that behalf declaring his intention to pay the bill for honor and for whose honor he pays.
Page 198 - Except as herein otherwise provided, when a negotiable instrument has been dishonored by non-acceptance or non-payment, notice of dishonor must be given to the drawer and to each indorser, and any drawer or indorser to whom such notice is not given is discharged.
Page 226 - An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery ; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
Page 186 - No person is liable on the instrument whose signature does not appear thereon, except as herein otherwise expressly provided. But one who signs in a trade or assumed name will be liable to the same extent as if he had signed in his own name.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Conflict of Laws Relating to Bills and Notes: Preceded by a Comparative Study of the Law of Bills and Notes |
| Author | Ernest Gustav Lorenzen |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1919 |
| Length | 337 pages |
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