A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange: Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and Cheques |
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... evidence of . When it amounts to Pay- ment 30 26 26 26 26 26 27 27 28 29 30 24 31 Dividend Warrants . 31 24 Post Office Cheques 31 When it may be taken in Payment The Cheque Bank 32 24 Summary of Chief Points of Whether Holder be ...
... evidence of . When it amounts to Pay- ment 30 26 26 26 26 26 27 27 28 29 30 24 31 Dividend Warrants . 31 24 Post Office Cheques 31 When it may be taken in Payment The Cheque Bank 32 24 Summary of Chief Points of Whether Holder be ...
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... Evidence Effect of a Promise to pay . 217 . 216 . 217 217 • Notice of Protest 223 MODE OF TRANSMITTING 219 • DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT 219 FORM OF THE NOTICE Description of the Instru- ment Statement of Party on whose 222 behalf Notice is ...
... Evidence Effect of a Promise to pay . 217 . 216 . 217 217 • Notice of Protest 223 MODE OF TRANSMITTING 219 • DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT 219 FORM OF THE NOTICE Description of the Instru- ment Statement of Party on whose 222 behalf Notice is ...
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... Evidence of Notice CHAPTER XVI . OF ACCEPTANCE . CHAPTER XVII . OF PRESENTMENT FOR PAYMENT . CHAPTER XVIII. PAGE 240 . No effects Or reasonable expectation of Bill being honoured . 243 As regards Indorser when excused Ignorance of ...
... Evidence of Notice CHAPTER XVI . OF ACCEPTANCE . CHAPTER XVII . OF PRESENTMENT FOR PAYMENT . CHAPTER XVIII. PAGE 240 . No effects Or reasonable expectation of Bill being honoured . 243 As regards Indorser when excused Ignorance of ...
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... Evidence of Payment Of delivering up the Bill Of giving a Receipt Effect of Receipt " · 302 . 302 PAGE Retractation of Payment . 305 Payment under Mistake of Fact or Law When Payment is deemed complete PAYMENT SUPRA PROTEST 305 305 ...
... Evidence of Payment Of delivering up the Bill Of giving a Receipt Effect of Receipt " · 302 . 302 PAGE Retractation of Payment . 305 Payment under Mistake of Fact or Law When Payment is deemed complete PAYMENT SUPRA PROTEST 305 305 ...
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... Evidence of Date 362 354 Construction 362 Mutual running Account . 362 354 • 363 cutors 363 363 363 Loes not Destroy the Debt . 353 Foreign Statutes of Limi- tation . WHAT LEGAL PROCEED- INGS IT LIMITS Effect of Statute on Title of a ...
... Evidence of Date 362 354 Construction 362 Mutual running Account . 362 354 • 363 cutors 363 363 363 Loes not Destroy the Debt . 353 Foreign Statutes of Limi- tation . WHAT LEGAL PROCEED- INGS IT LIMITS Effect of Statute on Title of a ...
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Common terms and phrases
34 Vict 6th American edition acceptance acceptor accommodation bill action agent agreement amount authority bank notes Bank of England banker Bayley bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bills and notes Bing Byles on Bills Camp Chan CHAPTER cheque choses in action Code common law consideration Court creditor debt debtor defendant delivery dissolution drawer due course East evidence Exch executor firm fraud given held holder for value holder in due husband indorsement infant instrument issue joint Jones liable Lord Ellenborough maker ment negotiable negotiable instruments note payable notice of dishonour paid parties partner partnership payable on demand payable to bearer payee payment person plaintiff present principal promise to pay promissory note protest recover Scott sect signature Smith stamp Stamp Act Stark statute Stra supra Taunt tion transfer unless value received void words
Popular passages
Page 521 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 501 - That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Page 75 - Parliament, and that it shall not be lawful for any body politic or corporate whatsoever created or to be created, or for any other persons whatsoever united or to be united in covenants or partnership exceeding the number of six persons in that part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable on demand or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Page 506 - Where the instrument is not payable on demand, presentment must be made on the day it falls due. Where it is payable on demand, presentment must be made within a reasonable time after its issue, except that in the case of a bill of exchange, presentment for payment will be sufficient if made within a reasonable time after the last negotiation thereof.
Page 288 - Payment is made in due course when it is made at or after the maturity of the instrument to the holder thereof in good faith and without notice that his title is defective.
Page 508 - A written notice need not be signed, and an insufficient written notice may be supplemented and validated by verbal communication. A misdescription of the instrument does not vitiate the notice unless the party to whom the notice is given is in fact misled thereby.
Page 504 - Where the bill is drawn payable elsewhere than at the residence or place of business of the drawee.
Page 505 - Where a bill is addressed to two or more drawees who are not partners, presentment must be made to them all, unless one has authority to accept or refuse acceptance for all, in which case presentment may be made to him only ; 2.
Page 496 - Notice of dishonor is not required to be given to an indorser in either of the following cases : 1. Where the drawee is a fictitious person or a person not having capacity to contract, and the indorser was aware of the fact at the time he indorsed the instrument; 2.
Page 497 - 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; 2.