Perhaps the best definition of a bill of exchange yet conceived is that in the English Bills of Exchange Act, of 1882, which says: "A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving... Goodeve's Modern Law of Personal Property - Sida 170efter Louis Arthur Goodeve - 1904 - 475 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Great Britain - 1892 - 94 sidor
...exchange is an unconditional order in BUI ot E writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. NB— The text, in large type, is that of the original (Knglish) Act. Variations therefrom appear in... | |
| John James MacLaren - 1892 - 646 sidor
...an unconditional order ^1a!u°feEdxe: in writing, addressed by one person to another, flned" signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer : Imp. Act, s, 3 (1). The foregoing clause is copied from the Imperial Act without change. Probably... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton - 1892 - 806 sidor
...Viet. c. 61, a, 3, as 'an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.' It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement of commerce, it is assignable, at common law, by... | |
| John James MacLaren - 1892 - 628 sidor
...writing made by one person to another, deflned signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain...to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer. Imp. Act, s. 83 (1). This definition of a promissory note is an adaptation of that of a bill of exchange,... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - 1892 - 610 sidor
...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 certain sum in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person,... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1892 - 398 sidor
...Exchange Act, 1882, as 'an unconditional order in writing, a'ddressed 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 determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer.'... | |
| Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1892 - 820 sidor
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer, and an instrument which does not comply with these conditions is not a bill of exchange. Now it is... | |
| Great Britain - 1892 - 98 sidor
...exchange drawn on a banker [v.,Q.,WA 7*.] payable on demand. New South Wales.—At end of paragraph add : [to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer]. Except as otherwise provided in this [Part,] the provisions of this [ ] Act applicable to a bill of... | |
| 1903 - 456 sidor
...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...determinable future time ^a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. Ibid, Sec. 143. A check is a bill of exchange drawn on a bank payable on demand.... | |
| Melville Madison Bigelow - 1893 - 360 sidor
...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 determinate future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or... | |
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