 | United States. War Department - 1912 - 814 pages
...person or association of persons carrying on the business of banking, whether incorporated or not ; "Bearer" means the person in possession of a bill...bearer; "Bill" means bill of exchange, and "note" means negotiable promissory note ; "Delivery" means transfer of possession, actual or constructive, from... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1120 pages
...possession of It, or the bearer thereof, and provides that the word "bearer," when used In the act, means a person In possession of a bill or note which Is payable to bearer. Held, that the word "holder," used In the beginning of the last clause of section 5311, Includes any... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 648 pages
...in • the Bills of Exchange Act of 1882 applicable to England. By S. 2 of that Act it is stated : " 'Bearer' means the person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer." A bill of exchange under the English Law is defined by S. 3 as follows : A bill of exchange is an unconditional... | |
 | Thomas Bugard Paton - Banking law - 1926 - 1408 pages
...indorsee of a bill or note who is in possession of it, or the bearer thereof." "Bearer." the act provides, "means the person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer." The person who procured certification of this check was not, therefore, the bearer, nor could he be... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1112 pages
...in possession of it, or the bearer thereof." In the same section a 'Ъеагег" is defined to be a person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer. Manifestly, therefore, the assignee without indorsement cannot be a 'holder,' because he is neither... | |
 | California - Civil law - 1927 - 690 pages
...person or association of persons carrying on the business of banking, whether incorporated or not. "Bearer" means the person in possession of a bill...bearer. "Bill" means bill of exchange, and "note" means negotiable promissory note. "Delivery" means transfer of possession, actual or constructive, from one... | |
 | California Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 384 pages
...person or association of persons carrying on the business of banking, whether incorporated or not. "Bearer" means the person in possession of a bill...bearer. "Bill" means bill of exchange, and "note' means negotiable promissory note. "Delivery" means transfer of possession, actual or constructive, from one... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1927 - 648 pages
...not liable thereon — his name does not appear on it. The Bearer according to Section 2 of the Act means " the person " in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer." He is, then, a particular type of holder and may even be an Unlawful Holder. For example, if A find... | |
 | Henry Winthrop Ballantine - Bar examinations - 1927 - 1166 pages
...bearer instrument is a holder, because a bearer is a holder, and a bearer is denned in section 191 as "a person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer," such a bearer can be denied the right to sue upon the instrument, not because he is not the holder,... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Negotiable instruments - 1928 - 680 pages
...payee or indorsee of a bill or note, who is in possession of i1, or the bearer thereof:" NIL § 191. "'Bearer' means the person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer : " NIL § 191. "An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such... | |
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Bearer" means the person in possession of a bill or note which is payable to bearer. "Bill" means bill of exchange, and "note" means negotiable promissory note. 
