A Treatise on the Law of Negotiable Instruments: Including Bills of Exchange; Promissory Notes; Negotiable Bonds and Coupons; Checks; Bank Notes; Certificates of Deposit; Certificates of Stock; Bills of Credit; Bills of Lading; Guaranties; Letters of Credit and Circular Notes, Volume 1Baker, Voorhis & Company, 1886 "Including bills of exchange ; promissory notes ; negotiable bonds and coupons ; checks ; bank notes ; certificates of deposit ; certificates of stock ; bills of credit ; bills of lading ; guaranties ; letters of credit ; and circular notes."--T.p. |
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... ment under seal imports a consideration . It has , therefore , ' three peculiar and distinguishing characteristics : First . Respecting the title . If a horse , or other personal chattel , or a non - negotiable instrument , be stolen ...
... ment under seal imports a consideration . It has , therefore , ' three peculiar and distinguishing characteristics : First . Respecting the title . If a horse , or other personal chattel , or a non - negotiable instrument , be stolen ...
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... ment of debt , there may be collected from the words used a promise to pay it , the instrument may be regarded as a promissory note . " 5 In England , it seems to be well settled that an ordinary due - bill , which is there frequently ...
... ment of debt , there may be collected from the words used a promise to pay it , the instrument may be regarded as a promissory note . " 5 In England , it seems to be well settled that an ordinary due - bill , which is there frequently ...
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... ment , the payee , nor the engagement to pay uncertain . $ .52 . The rule seems to be that if the memorandum or collateral agreement impairs the essential characteristics of certainty necessary to negotiable paper , it destroys its ...
... ment , the payee , nor the engagement to pay uncertain . $ .52 . The rule seems to be that if the memorandum or collateral agreement impairs the essential characteristics of certainty necessary to negotiable paper , it destroys its ...
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... 522 . B Disher v . Disher , 1 P. Wms . , 204 ; Chitty , Jr. , 230 . Gough v . Findon , 7 Exch . , 48 . ment . A direction to a third person who is 74 §63 REQUISITES OF BILLS AND NOTES . Coleman, 151 Duncan, Peele, 543 Ward, 56, 58.
... 522 . B Disher v . Disher , 1 P. Wms . , 204 ; Chitty , Jr. , 230 . Gough v . Findon , 7 Exch . , 48 . ment . A direction to a third person who is 74 §63 REQUISITES OF BILLS AND NOTES . Coleman, 151 Duncan, Peele, 543 Ward, 56, 58.
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... ment . A direction to a third person who is in actual custody thereof , to hold it subject to the payee's or trans- feree's order ; or an order to the depositary to deliver it , is sufficient in legal contemplation.1 Where the ...
... ment . A direction to a third person who is in actual custody thereof , to hold it subject to the payee's or trans- feree's order ; or an order to the depositary to deliver it , is sufficient in legal contemplation.1 Where the ...
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A Treatise on the Law of Negotiable Instruments: Including Bills ..., Volume 1 John Warwick Daniel Visualização completa - 1884 |
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acceptance acceptor action agent Allen amount appears apply assignment authority Bank bill of exchange bill or note bind blank bona fide holder bound Brown Byles Chitty on Bills City Clark collection consideration considered contract corporation County court debt defendant delivered demand draw drawer drawn Edwards effect England evidence executed expressed face fact firm funds give given Grat Gray hands held Hill holder illegal indorsement instrument intended interest Johns Jones liable Lord maker Mass ment Merchants necessary negotiable note payable notice original paid party payable payee payment person plaintiff presented principal promise promissory note question reason received recover regarded respect rule saying seems signed Smith statute Story on Bills sufficient suit third Thompson tion transfer United unless valid void Wend written York
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Página 2 - that the laws of the several States, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Página 3 - ... strictly limited to local statutes and local usages of the character before stated, and does not extend to contracts and other instruments of a commercial nature, the true interpretation and effect whereof are to be sought, not in the decisions of the local tribunals, but in the general principles and doctrines of commercial jurisprudence.
Página 336 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
Página 116 - Bill of exchange (foreign) or letter of credit (including orders by telegraph or otherwise for the payment of money issued by express or other companies or any person or persons), drawn in but payable out of the United States...
Página 746 - We may lay it down, as a broad general principle, that wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the act of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it.
Página 651 - ... breach of warranty. But it would be better to distinguish such cases as a non-compliance with a contract which a party has engaged to fulfil ; as, if a man offers to buy peas of another, and he sends him beans, he does not perform his contract; but that is not a warranty, there is no warranty that he should sell him peas ; the contract is to sell peas, and if he sends him anything else in their stead, it is a non-performance of it.
Página 379 - The officers of the bank are held out to the public as having authority to act, according to the general usage, practice, and course of...
Página 199 - I know of no case in which it has been held that the surplus, after the particular purpose is answered, forms part of the personal estate, so as to pass by the residuary bequest.
Página 481 - Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.
Página 3 - Undoubtedly, the decisions of the local tribunals upon such subjects are entitled to, and will receive, the most deliberate attention and respect of this court; but they cannot furnish positive rules, or conclusive authority, by which our own judgments are to be bound up and governed.