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... foreign or inland , in Scotland . Foreign bills in England and Ireland may be accepted verbally , or by a writing apart . A notification that the bill has " been presented " or " seen , " or a statement that " shall meet with due honour ...
... foreign or inland , in Scotland . Foreign bills in England and Ireland may be accepted verbally , or by a writing apart . A notification that the bill has " been presented " or " seen , " or a statement that " shall meet with due honour ...
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... foreign parents , it is an alien " ( I. 374 ) . By the later law of France , however , children of foreign parents may become naturalized by claiming the privilege in the course of a year following the attainment of majority , and ...
... foreign parents , it is an alien " ( I. 374 ) . By the later law of France , however , children of foreign parents may become naturalized by claiming the privilege in the course of a year following the attainment of majority , and ...
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... foreign articles . The other manufactures are chiefly those of iron , leather , paper , and glass ; the last chiefly in Bohemia . The proportion of the manufac- turing classes to the agricultural , is said to be as one to four . The ...
... foreign articles . The other manufactures are chiefly those of iron , leather , paper , and glass ; the last chiefly in Bohemia . The proportion of the manufac- turing classes to the agricultural , is said to be as one to four . The ...
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... foreign exchanges . In the exercise of their powers , however , the directors commonly act with caution . They are aware that under any circumstances a diminution of the currency is unfavourable to trade , lowering the price of ...
... foreign exchanges . In the exercise of their powers , however , the directors commonly act with caution . They are aware that under any circumstances a diminution of the currency is unfavourable to trade , lowering the price of ...
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... foreign bill . The peculiar privileges which attach to bills as negotiable instruments , were first awarded to foreign bills , or to those drawn in Britain and payable abroad , and arose out of the absurd notions regarding the balance ...
... foreign bill . The peculiar privileges which attach to bills as negotiable instruments , were first awarded to foreign bills , or to those drawn in Britain and payable abroad , and arose out of the absurd notions regarding the balance ...
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Page 202 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 268 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Page 447 - ... all actions of account, and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants, all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty...
Page 348 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 99 - This is no denial of the mathematical proposition that the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts...
Page 202 - That * * * no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer...
Page 202 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto...
Page 452 - ... and shall have employed or shall employ any persons to compose the same, or any volumes, parts, essays, articles or portions thereof, for publication in or as part of the same...
Page 9 - ... or cause or allow to be received, any oath, affidavit or solemn affirmation touching any matter or thing whereof such justice or other person hath not jurisdiction or cognizance by some statute in force at the time being.
Page 68 - ... committed; provided the person or persons so dealing with such bankrupt, or at •whose suit or on whose account such execution or attachment shall have issued, had not at the time of such contract, dealing, or transaction, or at the time of executing or levying such execution or attachment, notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed...