A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange: Checks on Bankers, Promissory Notes, Bankers' Cash Notes, and Bank NotesM. Carey & sons, 1821 - 764 pages |
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13 East acceptance supra protest acceptor accommodation bill act of bankruptcy action afterwards agent amount assignment Assumpsit bank Bank of England banker bankrupt Bayl bearer Beawes bill became due bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bill payable Burr Campb consideration contract court held court of equity creditor debt declaration defendant demand discharged discounted dishonour Dougl drawer effect entitled foreign bill give notice given hands Holt indorser inland bill instrument John jury laches letter liable London Lord Ellenborough Lord Kenyon Lord Mansfield Lord Raym maker Mass ment negotiable non-acceptance non-payment nonsuited paid partner partnership party pay the bill payee plaintiff Poth presented for payment promise to pay promissory note prove recover refused rule Salk shew stamp statute Stra sued sufficient Taunt third person transfer trial usury verdict
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Page ii - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 671 - ... for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available, or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed...
Page 186 - When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms — when its meaning is evident and leads to no absurd conclusion — there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of conjectures, in order to restrict or extend it, is but an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method be once admitted, there will be no deed which it will not render useless.
Page 168 - Games aforesaid, or for the reimbursing or repaying any Money knowingly lent, or advanced for such gaming or betting, as aforesaid, or lent or advanced at the Time and Place of such Play, to any Person or Persons so gaming or betting, as aforesaid, or that shall, during such Play, so play or bett, shall be utterly void, frustrate, and of none Effect, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever...
Page 655 - CD ; and if, within the space of days next after the making of such distress, the said last-mentioned sum, together with the reasonable charges of taking and keeping the said distress, shall not be paid, that then you do sell the said goods and chattels so by you distrained, and do pay the money arising from such sale to the clerk of the justices of the peace for the division of in the said [county...
Page 681 - ... he shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction...
Page 657 - Suit shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if...
Page 677 - ... pounds 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 649 - ... or indorsable over in the same manner as inland bills of exchange are or may be, according to the custom of merchants...
Page 168 - ... for the reimbursing or repaying any money knowingly lent or advanced for such gaming or betting as aforesaid, or lent or advanced at the time and place of such play to any person or persons so gaming or betting as aforesaid, or that shall during such play, so play or bet, shall be utterly void, frustrate, and of none effect to all intents and purposes whatsoever . . . (a) A statute of 1664, 16 Car.