Encyclopædia of Accounting, Volume 1George Lisle W. Green & sons, 1903 - Accounting |
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... contracts generally , the term " Acceptance " means the expression of assent by one person to a proposal made by another . In connection with contracts of sale , there is acceptance when the buyer intimates to the seller that he has ...
... contracts generally , the term " Acceptance " means the expression of assent by one person to a proposal made by another . In connection with contracts of sale , there is acceptance when the buyer intimates to the seller that he has ...
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... contract under which the insurer contracts to pay a certain sum in the event of injury or death from accident , and the insured becomes bound to pay a certain sum in name of premium . The system of insurance against accident was largely ...
... contract under which the insurer contracts to pay a certain sum in the event of injury or death from accident , and the insured becomes bound to pay a certain sum in name of premium . The system of insurance against accident was largely ...
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... in favour of such a contract as the former example assumes . The fore- going example worked out by products would be as follows : - II . BY MEANS OF PRODUCTS 5 per cent on 10 ACCOUNT CURRENT , INTEREST ON I. USING INTEREST TABLES ...
... in favour of such a contract as the former example assumes . The fore- going example worked out by products would be as follows : - II . BY MEANS OF PRODUCTS 5 per cent on 10 ACCOUNT CURRENT , INTEREST ON I. USING INTEREST TABLES ...
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... contract , may exercise an independent choice as to ways and means . many cases the line is hard to draw between a contract of agency and In some other contractual relationship importing agency , e.g. that of AGENCY 55.
... contract , may exercise an independent choice as to ways and means . many cases the line is hard to draw between a contract of agency and In some other contractual relationship importing agency , e.g. that of AGENCY 55.
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... contract the principal must be in existence , and the agent must intend to be agent ; otherwise , the contract will be that of the agent alone , requiring some act of assignment to bind the principal . Creation of the Relationship ...
... contract the principal must be in existence , and the agent must intend to be agent ; otherwise , the contract will be that of the agent alone , requiring some act of assignment to bind the principal . Creation of the Relationship ...
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acceptance acceptor accommodation bill agent amount annuity apply appointed apportionment Arbitration Act 1889 assets audit auditor balance sheet Bank of England banker bankrupt Bankruptcy Act bill of exchange Bills Payable Bills Receivable Board of Trade book-keeping capital cash book cent charge cheque claim column Companies Act 1862 Consignment contract Court Court of Session credit side creditors debit side debt debtor deed discharge discount dishonour dividend drawee drawer duty economic entitled entry given Glen & Day head office holder income indorser interest liabilities Lord Ordinary Loss Account ment notes notice Official Receiver ordinary paid particular parties payment person petition practice present principal Profit and Loss purchase realised remainderman rent respect rule Scotland sequestration sheriff sold stamp statement tenant thereof transactions trial balance trustee valuation Vict
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Page 306 - All goods being, at the commencement of the bankruptcy, in the possession, order or disposition of the bankrupt, in h'ia trade or business, by the consent and permission of the true owner, under such circumstances that he is the reputed owner thereof...
Page 243 - 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 271 - Court, elsewhere, a bankruptcy notice under this Act, requiring him to pay the judgment debt in accordance with the terms of the judgment, or to secure or compound for it to the satisfaction of the creditor or the Court, and he does not, within seven days after service of the notice...
Page 371 - 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 232 - 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 303 - Save as aforesaid, all debts and liabilities, present or future, certain or contingent, to which the debtor is subject at the date of the receiving order, or to which he may become subject before his discharge by reason of any obligation incurred before the date of the receiving order, shall be deemed to be debts provable, in bankruptcy.
Page 270 - If, with intent to defeat or delay his creditors, he does any of the following things, namely, departs out of England, or, being out of England, remains out of England, or departs from his dwelling-house, or otherwise absents himself, or begins to keep house.
Page 306 - The capacity to exercise and to take proceedings for exercising all such powers in or over or in respect of property as might have been exercised by the bankrupt for his own benefit at the commencement of his bankruptcy or before his discharge, except the right of nomination to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice...
Page 374 - 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 310 - Every conveyance or transfer of property, or charge thereon made, every payment made, every obligation incurred, and every judicial proceeding taken or suffered by any person unable to pay his debts as they become due from his own money...