A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-notes, Bank-notes, and Checks on Bankers, Book 306T. and T. Clark, 1865 - 681 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
13 June 20 Vict 28 June acceptance accepted supra protest acceptor action afterwards amount Antea appear apply bank notes Bank of England banker bankrupt bankruptcy bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bills and notes bound Camp Campbell Chitty claim contract Court Court of Session creditor debt debtor decided decision defendant discharge dishonour doctrine document draft drawer effect England entitled ex facie foreign bills fraud given granted granter ground held holder indorser inland bills July June L. J. Ex letter liable Lord Ellenborough ment Morr negotiation non-acceptance non-payment notice obligation onerous indorsee paid partner payee person plaintiff presented principle promissory-note proof protest proved received recourse rule Scotland stamp Stamp Acts statute subscribed summary diligence term of payment third party Thomson tion Trustees unless Vide writ or oath
Popular passages
Page 613 - ... for the reimbursing or repaying any money knowingly lent or advanced for such gaming or betting as aforesaid, or lent or advanced at the time and place of such play, to any person or persons so gaming or betting as aforesaid, or that shall, during such play, so play or bet, shall be utterly void, frustrate, and of none effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever...
Page 624 - Execution for and in the raising, levying, collecting, and securing of the said Duties hereby granted, and otherwise in relation thereto, so far as the same shall not be superseded by and shall be consistent with the express Provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the same had been herein repeated and specially enacted, mutatis mutandis.
Page 640 - ... the use of any seal purporting to be a seal of the company whereon its name is not so engraven as aforesaid, or...
Page 635 - MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the...
Page 640 - Act of 1862, which enacts, that " a promissory note or bill of exchange shall be deemed to have been made, accepted or endorsed on behalf of any...
Page 609 - ... promising the payment of any sum or sums of money out of any particular fund, which may or may not be available, or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed or happen, if the...
Page 623 - ... or in respect of the vellum, parchment, or paper upon which such instruments, matters, or things, or any of them, shall be written or printed, by any person or persons, or party who shall make, sign, or issue the same, or for whose use or benefit the same shall be made, signed, or issued, the several duties or sums of money set down in figures against the same, respectively, or otherwise specified or set forth in the said schedule.
Page 609 - And all bills, drafts, or orders for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available, or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed...
Page 613 - And whereas by an act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled 'An Act for reducing tlie Interest of Money to Six per Cent...
Page 608 - Promissory note for the payment in any other manner than to the bearer on demand, but not exceeding two months after date, or- sixty days after sight, of any sum of money, Amounting to 40s.