 | John Barnard Byles - Bills of exchange - 1891 - 674 pages
...person of terms. 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...or to the order of, a specified person or to bearer (a). No precise form of words is essential to the validity of a bill of exchange, provided it substantially... | |
 | Henry Roscoe, Maurice Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1891 - 924 pages
...giving it, requiring tho person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinablo future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order...specified person, or to bearer. "(2.) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders anv act to be done in addition to the... | |
 | James Shaw Sinclair - Forms (Law) - 1891 - 430 pages
...the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay, on demand or at a fixed determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person or to the bearer : " Bills of Exchange Act, 1890, page 2. A cheque drawn by the Inspector must, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Brett - English law - 1891 - 660 pages
...notes person to another, signed by the maker engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinablo future time, a sum certain, in money, to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer "( 4 ). A promissory note is inchoate and incomplete until delivery of it to the payee or bearer (... | |
 | Charles George Walpole - Common law - 1891 - 398 pages
...requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed and determinable time a sum of money to, or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer, (c) Or, again, it may be to " the bearer." 1. The party addressing the order to the second party is... | |
 | John James MacLaren - Bills of exchange - 1892 - 628 pages
...promissory note is an unconditional^™i88013' promise in writing made by one person to another, deflned signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or...to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer. Imp. Act, s. 83 (1). This definition of a promissory note is an adaptation of that of a bill of exchange,... | |
 | Great Britain - Bills of exchange - 1892 - 94 pages
...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...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. NB— The text, in large type, is that of the original (Knglish) Act. Variations therefrom appear in... | |
 | John James MacLaren - Bills of exchange - 1892 - 646 pages
...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...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer : Imp. Act, s, 3 (1). The foregoing clause is copied from the Imperial Act without change. Probably... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1892 - 398 pages
...signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a determinable future time, a sum certain in money,...to the order of a specified person or to bearer.' Turning to sect. 32 of the Stamp Act, 1891, we find a much wider definition of the term ' bill of exchange... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1892 - 820 pages
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer, and an instrument which does not comply with these conditions is not a bill of exchange. Now it is... | |
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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... 
