Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York as Amended to January 1, 1918: Containing Also the Federal and State Constitutions with Notes of Board of Statutory Consolidation, Tables of Laws and Index, Volume 3Banks Law Publishing Company, 1917 - Law |
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Page 2864 - Where a negotiable receipt has been lost or destroyed a court of competent jurisdiction may order the delivery of the goods, upon satisfactory proof of such loss or destruction, and upon the giving of a bond with sufficient...
Page 2874 - A negotiable bill may be negotiated by the indorsement of the person to whose order the goods are deliverable by the tenor of the bill. Such indorsement may be in blank or to a specified person. If indorsed to a specified person, it may be negotiated again by the indorsement of such person in blank or to another specified person.
Page 2938 - ... no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may BO testify or produce evidence...
Page 2877 - The validity of the negotiation of a bill is not impaired by the fact that such negotiation was a breach of duty...
Page 2868 - A creditor whose debtor is the owner of a negotiable bill shall be entitled to such aid from courts of appropriate jurisdiction by injunction and otherwise in attaching such bill, or in satisfying the claim by means thereof as is allowed at law or in equity in regard to property which cannot readily be attached or levied upon by ordinary legal process.
Page 2866 - A warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to them as a reasonably careful owner of similar goods would exercise, but he shall not be liable, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, for any loss or injury to the goods which could not have been avoided by the exercise of such care.
Page 2797 - The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any such case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.
Page 2804 - If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate (the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 3076 - To make by-laws, not inconsistent with an-y existing law, for the management of its property, the regulation of its affairs, and for the transfer of its stock; 7.
Page 3176 - ... setting forth any act or thing done or omitted to be done by any public utility including any rule, regulation or charge heretofore established or fixed by or for any public utility, in violation, or claimed to be in violation, of any provision of law or of any order or rule of the commission...