 Perhaps the best definition of a bill of exchange yet conceived is that in the English Bills of Exchange Act, of 1882, which says: "A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving...  The Acts of the Parliament of Queensland - Page 72by Queensland - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Henry Roscoe, Maurice Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1891 - 924 pages
...ordor in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by tho person 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 of a specified person,... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1892 - 806 pages
...in the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Viet. c. 61, a, 3, as 'an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.' It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement of commerce, it is assignable, at common law, by... | |
 | Great Britain - Bills of exchange - 1892 - 94 pages
...and Interpretation. , WA ij 3 ^i ^ A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in BUI ot E writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the...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
...exchange is an unconditional order ^1a!u°feEdxe: in writing, addressed by one person to another, flned" signed by the person giving it, requiring the person...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... | |
 | John James MacLaren - Bills of exchange - 1892 - 628 pages
...exchange is an unconditional order ^^^ in \vriti7ig, addressed by one person to another, flaedsigned by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom...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
...bill is defined by sect. 3 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, as 'an unconditional order in writing, a'ddressed by one person to another, signed by the...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer.'... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Banks and banking - 1892 - 610 pages
...a Bill of Exchange is defined thus : — " A Bill of Exchange is an unconditional Order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Great Britain - Bills of exchange - 1892 - 98 pages
...exchange drawn on a banker [v.,Q.,WA 7*.] payable on demand. New South Wales.—At 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... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 942 pages
...critical. For instance, upon the 3rd section—" A Bill of Exchange is an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it etc."—the learned commentator says : " First, a Bill of Exchange must be ' unconditional,' yet the... | |
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