Summary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory NotesHillard, Gray,, 1836 - 651 pages |
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Summary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes Willard Phillips,Francis Bayley,John Bayley No preview available - 2018 |
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acceptor action afterwards agent amount antè assignees assumpsit Bank banker bankruptcy bearer bill became due bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bill payable bill was drawn brought C. J. delivered Campb cause shown consideration considered Court held Court thought Cowen creditor debt declaration defendant defendant's delivered the opinion demand demurrer discharged discounted dishonor dorser drawer East's Rep endorsee endorser entitled evidence fendant foreign bill gave give notice given holder Johns judgment jury liable London Lord Eldon Lord Ellenborough Lord Kenyon Lord Mansfield Lord Tenterden M'Cord maker Martin Mass ment negotiable non-acceptance non-payment nonsuit note payable paid partners partnership party payable on demand payee person plaintiff presented for payment promise to pay promissory note proof protest prove recover refused residence rule nisi sent signed Smith statute sued sufficient suit surety Term Rep thereof tiff trial usurious Utica Vide Wend
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Page 568 - ... for the forbearance of one hundred pounds for a year; and so after that rate for a greater or lesser sum, or for a longer or Shorter time...
Page 22 - ... unless such suit might have been prosecuted in such Court to recover the said contents if no assignment or transfer had been made...
Page 184 - August, 1821, if any person shall accept a bill of exchange, payable ul the house of a banker or other place, without further expression in his acceptance, such acceptance shall be deemed and taken to be, to all intents and purposes, a general acceptance of such bill ; but, if the acceptor shall in his acceptance express that he accepts the bill payable at a banker's house or other place...
Page 2 - ... over, within the custom of merchants, to any other person, and that such person to whom the sum of money mentioned in such note is payable cannot maintain an action, by the custom of merchants...
Page 159 - Act (Scotland), 1856, it is enacted that no acceptance of any bill of exchange, whether inland or foreign, made after the 31st day of December, 1856, shall be sufficient to bind or charge any person, unless the same be in writing on such bill, or if there be more than one part of such bill on one of the said parts...
Page 598 - Whoever shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, mutilated or altered any passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, with intent to use the same or with intent that the same may be used by another...
Page 110 - Mansfield directed a nonsuit ; but upon a rule to show cause why there should not be a new...
Page 166 - Bedford assizes, a verdict was found for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion of the Court on the following case. The plaintiffs are the parish officers of Toddington, and the defendants are the parish officers of Milton Bryant.
Page 252 - ... obtained a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial.
Page 455 - ... if he shall have paid the debt, or any part thereof, in discharge of the whole debt...