A Digest of the Law Relating to Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bankers' Checks: With an Appendix Containing the Statutes and Forms |
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... bill of exchange . Foreign bills . Inland bills . Definition of a promissory note . Statute 3 & 4 Ann . Notes under 20s . Notes under 51 . Bankers ' notes . Bankers ' checks . Bank notes . Coal notes . Insolvent notes . A bill of exchange ...
... bill of exchange . Foreign bills . Inland bills . Definition of a promissory note . Statute 3 & 4 Ann . Notes under 20s . Notes under 51 . Bankers ' notes . Bankers ' checks . Bank notes . Coal notes . Insolvent notes . A bill of exchange ...
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... bill of exchange is nothing but an order on the drawee to pay so much out of the effects of the drawer in his hands , and the acceptance is evidence in law that the acceptor has such effects . Per Heath , J. Stock v . Mawson , 1 B. & P ...
... bill of exchange is nothing but an order on the drawee to pay so much out of the effects of the drawer in his hands , and the acceptance is evidence in law that the acceptor has such effects . Per Heath , J. Stock v . Mawson , 1 B. & P ...
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... bill or note is directed to be made , is contingent or limited , such bill or note is invalid . Thus , when a bill was drawn upon one Josceline to pay so much every month out of his growing subsistence , it was held not to be good ...
... bill or note is directed to be made , is contingent or limited , such bill or note is invalid . Thus , when a bill was drawn upon one Josceline to pay so much every month out of his growing subsistence , it was held not to be good ...
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... bill was bad , because the quantum due for freight might be open to objection , but that such an order from the freighter is a good bill , because it is an admission that so much at least is due . Bayley , 18. Thus , when M'Lintot ...
... bill was bad , because the quantum due for freight might be open to objection , but that such an order from the freighter is a good bill , because it is an admission that so much at least is due . Bayley , 18. Thus , when M'Lintot ...
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... bill of exchange , had the word at been distinctly written before the names of the drawees , but he left it to the jury whether the word at , from the manner in which it was written , was not inserted for the purpose of deception , and ...
... bill of exchange , had the word at been distinctly written before the names of the drawees , but he left it to the jury whether the word at , from the manner in which it was written , was not inserted for the purpose of deception , and ...
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A Digest of the Law Relating to Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and ... Henry Roscoe No preview available - 2023 |
A Digest of the Law Relating to Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and ... Henry Roscoe No preview available - 2023 |
Common terms and phrases
acceptance supra protest acceptor accommodation bill action aforesaid afterwards agent alteration amount ante appeared assignees averment Bank of England banker or bankers bankruptcy Bayley bearer on demand became bankrupt bill became due bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bill payable bill was drawn bills and notes bona fide Campb Chitty court of K. B. creditor custom of merchants debt declaration defendant discharged discounted draft or order East evidence exceeding foreign bills further enacted given hands holder indorsed inland bill instrument issued jury letter liable London Lord Eldon Lord Kenyon Lord Mansfield maker ment months after date negotiable nonsuited note payable notice of dishonor opinion paid partners partnership party payee person or persons plaintiff promise to pay promissory note proof protest prove Raym refused shew Smith stamp Stark statute sued sufficient sum of money Taunt thereof usurious value received verdict witness
Popular passages
Page 296 - ... contractor, executor, or administrator shall lose the benefit of the said enactments, or either of them, so as to be chargeable in respect or by reason only of any written acknowledgment or promise made and signed by any other or others of them ; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall alter, or take away, or lessen the effect of any payment of any principal or interest made by any person whatsoever...
Page 48 - 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 341 - ... due on either side on the balance of such account and no more, shall be claimed or paid on either side respectively...
Page 384 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 4 - ... and also every such note payable to any person or persons, body politick and corporate, his, her, or their order, shall be assignable or indorsable over, in the same manner as inland bills of exchange are or may be, according to the custom of merchants...
Page 361 - Justice told the jury that there were two questions for their consideration : First, whether the plaintiff had given value for the bill, of which there could be no doubt ; and, secondly, whether he took it under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man.
Page 406 - ... and in any such action the defendant may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon...
Page 405 - ... to appeal to the justices of the peace at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the county...
Page 402 - AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall continue and be in Force, for and during Two Years, next after the Passing thereof, and from thence to the End of the next Session of Assembly.
Page 427 - ... specified in such drafts or orders, and provided the same shall bear date on or before the day on which the same shall be issued ; and provided the same do not direct the payment to be made by bills or promissory notes.