A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Letters of Credit in Scotland

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Oliver & Boyd, and Bell & Bradfute, 1824 - Bills of exchange - 424 pages

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Page 396 - ... for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available...
Page 113 - Act (Scotland), 1856, it is enacted that no acceptance of any bill of exchange, whether inland or foreign, made after the 31st day of December, 1856, shall be sufficient to bind or charge any person, unless the same be in writing on such bill, or if there be more than one part of such bill on one of the said parts...
Page 393 - August one thousand eighi hundred and fifteen, make and issue, or cause to be made and issued, any bill, draft or order, for the payment of money to the bearer on demand, upon any banker or bankers, or any person or persons acting as a banker or bankers, which shall be dated on any day subsequent to the day on which it shall be issued...
Page 396 - ... or note in payment or satisfaction of any sum of money; where such drafts or orders shall require the payment or delivery to be made to the bearer, or to order, or shall be delivered to the payee, or some person on his or her behalf. All receipts given by any banker or bankers, or other person or persons for money received, which shall entitle or be...
Page 398 - Promissory note for the payment either to the bearer on demand, or in any other manner than to the bearer on demand, but not exceeding two months after date, or sixty days after sight, of any sum of money : =f of £ «. d.
Page 70 - ... and that all bonds, contracts, and assurances whatsoever, made after the time aforesaid, forpaimcnt of any principal, or money, to be lent, or covenanted to be performed upon, or for any usury, whereby there shall be reserved, or taken, above the rate of five pounds in the hundred, as aforesaid, shall be utterly void...
Page 393 - ... acting as a banker, upon whom any such bill, draft, or order shall be drawn, shall pay, or cause or permit to be paid, the sum of money therein expressed, or any part thereof, knowing the same to be...
Page 393 - ... and, moreover, shall not be allowed the money so paid, or any part thereof, in account against the person or persons by or for whom such bill, draft, or order, shall be drawn, or his, her, or their executors or administrators, or his, her, or their assignees or creditors, in case of bankruptcy or insolvency, or any other person or persons claiming under him, her, or them.
Page 155 - ... if the presentment had been during the hours of rest, it would have been altogether unavailing; but eight in the evening cannot be considered an unseasgnablehour for demanding payment at the house of a private merchant, who has accepted a bill.
Page 396 - All drafts or orders for the payment of any sum of money by a bill or promissory note, or for the delivery of any such bill or note in payment or satisfaction of any sum of money ; where such drafts or orders shall require the payment or delivery to be made to the bearer, or to order, or shall be delivered to the payee, or some person on his or her behalf.

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