A Treatise upon Money, Coins, and Exchange, etc

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G. Keith, 1755 - Foreign exchange - 215 pages

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Page 49 - ... shall and may maintain an action for the same, in such manner as he, she, or they might do upon any inland bill of exchange made or drawn according to the custom of merchants...
Page 49 - Be it therefore enafted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, that all and every...
Page 46 - One thousand six hundred ninety eight, all and every Bill or Bills of Exchange drawn in, or dated at and from, any trading City or Town, or any other Place...
Page 49 - ... and also every such note payable to any person or persons, body politic 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 47 - AB, on the day of payment of the bill, of which the above is the copy, which the said did not pay; wherefore, I, the said do hereby protest the said bill; dated this day of By sect. 2, " the protest is to be sent within fourteen days after the making thereof, or due notice given thereof to the party from...
Page 49 - ... corporate, his, her, or their order, or unto bearer, any sum of money mentioned in such note, shall be taken and construed to be, by virtue thereof, due and payable to any such person or persons, body politic and corporate, to whom the same is made payable...
Page 46 - Acceptance shall be by the underwriting the same under the Party's Hand so accepting) and after the Expiration of Three Days after the...
Page 46 - ... by any other fubftantial perfon of the city, town, or place, in the prefence of two or more credible...
Page 49 - Enafted by the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament...
Page 47 - ... thereof, be sent, or otherwise due Notice shall be given thereof to the Party from whom the said Bill or Bills were received, who is, upon producing such Protest, to repay the said Bill or Bills, together with all Interest and Charges from the Day such Bill or Bills were protested; for which Protest shall be paid a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Six pence; and in default or neglect of such...

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