 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 - Page 170by Louis Arthur Goodeve - 1904 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law - 1918 - 498 pages
...promise in writing made by one person to an-v other, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." While by section 4051 an instrument, to be negotiable, must conform to the following... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...a bill of exchange is an unconditional orJbr iu writing, addressed by one parson 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 determinahle future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1884 - 926 pages
...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...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer." That definition completely embraces in it a cheque. A cheque is such an order : an unconditional order... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1881 - 418 pages
...unconditional'!'" " f order in writing, addressed by one person to another, defined. signed by the person who gives 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... | |
 | W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...is an unconditional order Bi]lof ex. in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed defined, by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer (a). (2.) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders any act to be... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...unconditional BUI of exchange defined. 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. Sect. 97 saves the Stamp Acts. It is to be noted that many orders for the payment of money require... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain...specified person or to bearer. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning of this section unless... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...exchange is an unconditional order in writing, Hill of exaddressed 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 determinablc future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...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 determinablo future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
 | John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 604 pages
...as " an un- Definitions of conditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer " (u). A promissory note is defined as " an unconditional promise in writing, made by one person to... | |
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