Banking and Negotiable Instruments: A Maunal of Practical LawA. and C. Black, 1908 - 403 páginas |
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acceptance acceptor advances aforesaid agent amount authorised authority balance bank notes Bank of England banker banking company bill of exchange bill of lading blank transfer branch bank bullion cash certificates charge cheque circulation coin Companies Act Companies Act 1862 contract Court creditor customer's debentures debt debtor deposit documents draft drawee drawer drawn duty enacted England notes entitled equitable estopped estoppel Exchange Act 1882 executors firm given governor and company held hereby honour indorsement interest issue department issue notes letter of credit liable lien London Lord manager ment mortgage negotiable instruments overdraft owner paid partnership party payable to bearer payee payment person plaintiff pounds present principal promissory note purchaser receipt received registered rule in Clayton's shares ship signature surety thereof thousand eight hundred trust United Kingdom warrant
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Página 226 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Página 249 - A cheque is a Bill of Exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Promissory Note. — A Promissory Note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum...
Página 277 - ... agent acting for him, of the goods or documents of title, under any sale, pledge or other disposition thereof...
Página 327 - And it is especially declared and agreed that no acts of the insurer or insured in recovering, saving, or preserving the property insured shall be considered as a waiver, or acceptance of abandonment.
Página 155 - The rule of law is clear that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Página 327 - ... of the seas, men-ofwar, fire, enemies, pirates, rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and countermart, surpri.sals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises and ship, &c., or any part thereof...
Página 232 - procuration" operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is bound only in case the agent in so signing acted within the actual limits of his authority Sec.
Página 231 - But where the instrument is in the hands of a holder in due course, a valid delivery thereof by all parties prior to him so as to make them liable to him, is conclusively presumed.
Página 327 - Touching the adventures and perils which we the assurers are contented to bear and do take upon us in this voyage: they are of the seas, men of war, fire, enemies, pirates, rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and countermart, surprisals, takings at sea, arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever...
Página 327 - Where chartered freight is insured "at and from" a particular place, and the ship is at that place in good safety when the contract is concluded the risk attaches immediately. If she be not there when the contract is concluded, the risk attaches as soon as she arrives there in good safety. (d) Where freight, other than chartered freight, is payable without special conditions and is insured "at and from...