 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...  Laws of the Colony of Southern Nigeria - Page 685by Nigeria. Compilations - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Checks - 1900 - 396 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 in money to order or to bearer. § 134. A bill of itself does not operate as an assignment of the funds in the... | |
 | Edward Blayney Hamilton - Banking law - 1900 - 480 pages
...drawn on a banker payable on [V.,Q.,WA74.1 demand. A'eie South Woles.— At the end of paragraph add : to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. Except as otherwise provided in this Part, the provisions of this Act applicable to a bill of exchange... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1900 - 862 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 in money to order or to bearer. (As amended by chap. 3360/1898, § 25.) §211. Bill not an assignment of funds... | |
 | Adedeji Bodunde Badiru - Business & Economics - 1993 - 404 pages
...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a certain sum in money to, or to the order of a specified person, or to the bearer" (Bills of Exchange Act, 1882). a bill of exchange is essentially a post-dated cheque, drawn... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 960 pages
...one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or terminable future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. In 1896, a case of Kirkwood v. Smith (1896, 1 QB 582; 65 LJQB 408) decided that a promissory note must... | |
 | Mr.Robert C. Effros - Business & Economics - 1998 - 870 pages
...promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain...a specified person or to bearer. (2) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning of this section unless... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - Business & Economics - 1995 - 499 pages
...bill of exchange (310, 430) 36 <D I 3 o Variable observed 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'. bimetallism (040, 310) The use of two metals, usually gold and silver, in a fixed ratio as the standard... | |
 | Bryan A. Garner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 990 pages
...another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the addressee to pay on demand, or at a particular future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer. With such an array of meanings, bill is classifiable as a CHAMELEON-HUED WORD. See suit. hill» vera.... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Law - 1996 - 662 pages
...see also Pronunciation Symbols page mand or at a fixed or determined future time a particular sum of money to or to the order of a specified person or to the bearer recourse note : a note whose satisfaction upon default may be obtained from the debtor's... | |
 | Lance Moir - Business & Economics - 1997 - 210 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. Bond (security): an interest-bearing certificate of debt, usually for a term of 5 years or more, executed... | |
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