Summary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Cash Bills, and Promissory Notes |
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acceptance acceptor act of bankruptcy aforesaid afterwards agent allegation altered amount antè appeared assignees assumpsit bank Bank of England banker became bankrupt bill became due bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bill payable bill was drawn bonâ fide Campb cause shown commission consideration corporation or copartnership Court held Court thought creditor debt declaration defendant defendant's demurrer discounted dishonour dividend Dougl drawer East's Rep evidence exceeding fendant foreign bill forged forgery gave given holder indictment indorsed inland bill issued judgment liable London Lord Eldon Lord Ellenborough held Lord Kenyon Lord Mansfield Lord Raym Lord Tenterden maker ment months after date negotiable nonsuit note payable paid partners party payee person or persons petition plaintiff prisoner promise to pay promissory note proof protest prove recover rule nisi sent stamp sued sufficient Term Rep thereof trial usurious value received verdict for plaintiff Vide
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Page 84 - this act imposed, or any of them, shall be pleaded or given in evidence in any court, or admitted in any court to be good, useful, or available in law or equity, unless the vellum, parchment, or paper, on which such bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note, draft or order, shall be
Page 470 - That where " there has been mutual credit given by the bankrupt and any " other person, or where there are mutual debts between the " bankrupt and any other person, the commissioners shall state " the account between them, and one debt may be set against " another, notwithstanding any prior act of bankruptcy
Page 94 - annexed, (except those standing under the head of exemptions,) or for or in respect of the vellum, parchment, or paper, upon which such instruments; matters, and things, or any of them, shall be written or printed, the several duties or sums of money set down in figures against the same
Page 555 - of March, 1778, shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged or counterfeited, or willingly act or assist in the false making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting, any acceptance of any bill of exchange, with intention to defraud any
Page 555 - shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly act or assist in the false making, forging, or counterfeiting, any bill of exchange or promissory note for payment of money, or
Page 85 - as far as the same are or shall be applicable, in all cases not hereby expressly provided for; and shall be observed, applied, enforced, and put in execution, for the raising, levying, collecting, and securing of the said duties hereby granted, and otherwise relating thereto, so far as the same shall not be
Page 432 - and all other rights under the said commission which such creditor possessed, or would be entitled to, in respect of such proof; or if the creditor shall not have proved under the commission, such surety, or person liable, or bail, shall be entitled to prove his demand in respect of such payment as a debt under the
Page 555 - with intention to defraud any corporation whatsoever, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited; every such person, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy.
Page 112 - day of October; and every such licence, which shall be granted at any other time, shall be dated on the day on which the same shall be granted ; and every such licence respectively shall have effect and continue in force from the day of the date thereof until the 10th day of October following, both inclusive.
Page 600 - SCHEDULES referred to by this Act. SCHEDULE (A). RETURN or Account to be entered at the Stamp Office in London, in pursuance of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled [here insert the title of this act}, viz, Firm or name of the banking corporation or copartnership, viz, [set forth