A Commentary on the Bills of Exchange Act, Chapter 119 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906: With References to English, Canadian and American Cases, and the Opinions of Eminent JuristsBurroughs & Company, Limited, 1921 - 584 páginas |
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A Commentary on the Bills of Exchange Act, Chapter 119 of the Revised ... Benjamin Russell Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
A Commentary on the Bills of Exchange Act, Chapter 119 of the Revised ... Benjamin Russell Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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acceptor accommodation bill action agent agreement amount apply authority Bank Bank of Montreal bill of exchange bill or note bill payable Canada Canadian Bankers cheque cited conflict of laws consideration contract days of grace debt decision defendant delivery discharged document drawer or indorser due course effect entitled evidence Exchange Act fact foreign bill forged fraud held holder for value holder in due honour inland bill Justice Maclaren law merchant lex loci solutionis liable Lord Lord Herschell Maclaren on Bills maker maturity ment Molsons Bank negotiable instrument non-acceptance non-payment notice of dishonour overdue paid party payable on demand payable to bearer payee place of payment plaintiff presented for payment principle promise to pay promissory note protest question reason received recover referred rule says signature signed statute sufficient sum certain supra thereof tion transfer Vaglianos valid waiver words
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Página 25 - 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 to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Página 224 - That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Página 249 - An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery ; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
Página 121 - ... within a reasonable time. But if any such instrument, after completion, is negotiated to a holder in due course, it is valid and effectual for all purposes in his hands, and he may enforce it as if it had been filled up...
Página 295 - Where the drawee is a fictitious ,person or a person not having capacity to contract.
Página 292 - Where a bill is addressed to two or more drawees who are not partners, presentment must be made to them all...
Página 185 - Where the instrument contains or a person adds to his signature words indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative capacity, he is not liable on the instrument if he was duly authorized; but the mere addition of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, without disclosing his principal, does not exempt him from personal liability.
Página 136 - But when a bill payable after sight is dishonored by nonacceptance and the drawee subsequently accepts it, the holder, in the absence of...
Página 138 - Partial, that is to say, an acceptance to pay part only of the amount for which the bill is drawn ; 3. Local, that is to say, an acceptance to pay only at a particular place ; 4. Qualified as to time ; 5.
Página 181 - procuration" operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is bound only in case the agent in so signing acted within the actual limits of his authority Sec.