A Treatise on Commercial Paper and the Negotiable Instruments Law: Including the Law Relating to Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Checks, Municipal Bonds, and Other Negotiable and Nonnegotiable Instruments : Commonly Classed as Commercial Paper : with an Appendix Containing the Negotiable Instrumennts Law and the English Bills of Exchange Act

Bender, 1903 - Bills of exchange - 767 pages

CHAPTER I	1

Origin of bills of exchange	7

Parties to bill of exchange	17

OTHER FORMS OF COMMERCIAL PAPER	23

Checks	28

Letters of credit	35

General statement	42

Persons of unsound mind	55

When prior party may negotiate instrument	352

RIGHTS OF HOLDERS 358398	358

Defenses where instrument is in hands of person who is not holder	387

CHAPTER VII	398

81 Liability of drawer	403

Contract of indorsement who deemed indorser	411

Warranties where instrument is negotiated by delivery or quali	418

Order in which indorsers are liable	430

Intoxicated persons	61

Misspelled name of payee or indorsee presumption as to time	66

Alien enemies	70

of decedents	74

PERSONS ACTING IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY	80

Presumption in favor of validity of partnership paper executed	109

e Rights of bona fide holder	115

g Negotiable paper in payment of individual debts of partner	123

k Effect of dissolution	129

Municipal corporations	147

CHAPTER III	159

39 Time of payment Continued PAGE	160

Promise or order to pay must be unconditional	175

Must be payable in money	188

Time of payment	208

Instrument must be payable to order or bearer	221

Additional provisions not affecting negotiability	234

Omissions not affecting validity and negotiability	241

CHAPTER IV	270

Acts and services deemed sufficient consideration	286

r Forbearance	293

Presumption of consideration	301

When lien on instrument constitutes lienor a holder for value	307

NEGOTIATION 316357	316

Indorsement must be of entire instrument	323

Qualified indorsement	333

PRESENTMENT FOR PAYMENT 439484	439

Proper place of presentment	453

Presentment where instrument is payable at a bank	459

When delay in making presentment is excused	467

Instrument dishonored by nonpayment	472

Time how computed	479

NOTICE OF DISHONOR 485530	485

Notice by agent	495

Sufficiency and form of notice	498

Service of notice by mail	511

Where notice must be sent	517

When notice may be dispensed with	526

Discharge otherwise than by payment	540

CHAPTER XI	556

Forged instrument or indorsement thereon	565

130 Forgery as a defense	572

Bill not an assignment of funds in the hands of the drawee	578

CHAPTER XIII	585

143 Presentment how made	588

150 Liability for retention or destruction of bill	602

Protest how made	611

Where protest to be made	617

Maturity of bill payable after sight protest and dishonor of	623

Presentment of check for payment	630

CHAPTER XVIII	639

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Title	A Treatise on Commercial Paper and the Negotiable Instruments Law: Including the Law Relating to Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Checks, Municipal Bonds, and Other Negotiable and Nonnegotiable Instruments : Commonly Classed as Commercial Paper : with an Appendix Containing the Negotiable ...
Authors	James Webster Eaton, Frank Bixby Gilbert
Publisher	Bender, 1903
Length	767 pages

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