A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange, Checks on Bankers, Promisory Notes, Bankers' Cash Notes, and Bank Notes |
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Page 525 - 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...
Page 151 - There, in an action by the indorsee of a bill of exchange against the acceptor...
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Page 539 - Payment of any Principal or Money to be lent, or covenanted to be performed, upon or for any Usury, whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken above the Rate of Six Pounds in the Hundred, as aforesaid, shall be utterly void...
Page 525 - ... shall hear, and finally determine, the causes and matters of such appeal, in a summary way, and award such costs to the parties appealing, or appealed against as they the said justices shall think proper, and the determination of such general or quarter sessions shall be final...
Page 361 - That all notes in writing, that after the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and five, shall be made and signed by any person or persons, body politic or corporate, or by the servant or agent of any corporation, banker, goldsmith, merchant, or trader...
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Page 479 - ... any notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by such bankrupt committed, or that he was insolvent, or had stopped payment...
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| Title | A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange, Checks on Bankers, Promisory Notes, Bankers' Cash Notes, and Bank Notes |
| Author | Joseph Chitty |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | H.C. Carey & I. Lea, and sold, 1826 |
| Length | 653 pages |
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