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... Southern Reporter - Page 341921Full view - About this book
| James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...heretofore, pursuing the opposite policy. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. A RILL of exchange is legally described as "an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one...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... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...61,s.3, "x'"ti unconditional order in writingaddressed ''У «ne person to another, signed by the pei-son giving it) requiring the person to whom it is addressed...determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.' It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement... | |
| Oscar Borchardt - Banking law - 1883 - 392 pages
...writing, adchange dressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring defined. ^e person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or...determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. (2.) An instrument which does not comply with... | |
| DR. FRANZ BERNHOFT, DR. GEORG COHN, AND DR. J. KOHLER - 1883 - 542 pages
...Handelsrechts p. 52 ff. und Goldschmidt. Z. f. HR XXVUI, p. 95, n. 58. 3)„... 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." Hier ist der Verpflichtung des Ausstellers des... | |
| Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1884 - 834 pages
...sections of the B. of Ex. Acts, 1882, relating to bills of exchange are as follows : — Sect. 3. " (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing,...determinable future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. i " (2.) An instrument which does not comply with... | |
| James Walter Smith - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1884 - 164 pages
...subject] and incapable of being excelled in neatness and brevity. Form and Interpretation. S. 3. (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing,...determinable future time a sum certain in money to .or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. (2.) An instrument which does not comply with... | |
| Henry Gilbert Rawson - Law - 1884 - 362 pages
...by a Court of Error. The present mode of proceeding is by motion for a new trial. Bill of Exchange, an unconditional order in writing addressed by one...determinable future time a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person. or to bearer. The law on this subject has been codified by... | |
| Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1884 - 822 pages
...treatises as the definition of a bill of exchange, and has always been considered the right one. " A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or dcterminable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
| John Cunningham (barrister-at-law.), Sir Miles Walker Mattinson - Actions and defenses - 1884 - 848 pages
...plaintiff did not give value for the bill. Let me cross-examine him before a jury." A bill of exchange N an unconditional order in writing addressed by one...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or dcterminablc future time, a sum certain in money to. or to the order of. a specified person,... | |
| Banks and banking - 1884 - 1510 pages
...the question naturally arises — what is a Bill of Exchange '? It is a letter of request — nay, an unconditional order in writing addressed by one...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed determinable future time, a sum of money, certain in amount, to a third party, or to any other... | |
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