 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 712 pages
...Instrument act (Laws of 1907, p. 406,) fixes the law of this State on that subject, and is as follows: "Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...rate 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...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 otherwise provides,... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...indicated 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...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
...paying such 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... | |
 | James Walter Smith - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1884 - 164 pages
...indicated 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...amount payable. (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be pyable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise provides, interest runs from the date of the... | |
 | Aviet Agabeg, William Frederick Barry - Bills of exchange - 1884 - 286 pages
...or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill (v). ind. Act, s. 18. (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words,...the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable (f). (3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise provides,... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1884 - 834 pages
...B. & A. 301 ; Sprowle v. Leyge, 1 B. & C. 16. By sect. 9 (2) " Where the sum payable," by a bill, " is expressed in words and also in figures, and there...the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable." Ambiguous and irregular instruments.] Sect. 3 (1), ante, p. 319, defines a bill of exchange, and (2),... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Banks and banking - 1886 - 722 pages
...indicated rate of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill 1. Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable 2. Where a bill is expressed to lie payable with interest, nnless the instrument otherwise provides,... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1899 - 724 pages
...instrument is ambiguous or there are omissions therein the following rules of construction apply: 1. Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also...between the two the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable; but if the words are ambiguous or uncertain references may be had to the figures to fix... | |
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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;... 
