The Law Relating to ChequesButterworth, 1913 - 163 páginas |
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accord and satisfaction alteration amount Answers in Banking authority Bank of England Bank of Scotland Banking Practice Bills of Exchange blank cash Ch.D Chalmers cheque crossed cheque drawn cheque is payable City and Midland Clutton Clydesdale Bank collecting banker Crédit Lyonnais creditor crossed cheque customer's debt defendant bank delivery discharged draw drawer due course entitled estoppel Exchange Act favour forgery fraud give notice given Grote held holder for value holder in due honoured indorsement Institute of Bankers instrument John Paget judgment jury L.J. Ch L.J. Ex liable Londesborough London and County Lord ment Midland Bank National Bank negligence notice of dishonour Paget's Banking paid the cheque pass-book payable to bearer payee person plaintiff post-dated presented for payment reasonable recover restrictive indorsement Scholfield section 17 section 25 section 82 signature signed sued supra tion transferable Vagliano Vict words and figures Young
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Página 79 - 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 119 - Delay in Giving Notice — How Excused Delay in giving notice of dishonor is excused when the delay is caused by circumstances beyond the control of the holder, and not imputable to his default, misconduct, or negligence.
Página 1 - 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 127 - Delay in making presentment for payment is excused when the delay is caused by circumstances beyond the control of the holder, and not imputable to his default, misconduct, or negligence. When the cause of delay ceases to operate, presentment must be made with reasonable diligence.
Página 36 - But where the instrument is in the hands of a holder in due course, a valid delivery thereof by all parties prior to him so as to make them liable to him, is conclusively presumed.
Página 31 - 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.
Página 42 - In order, however, that any such instrument when completed may be enforced against any person who became a party thereto prior to its completion, it must be filled up strictly in accordance with the authority given and within a reasonable time.
Página 127 - Notice of dishonor is not required to be given to an indorser in either of the following cases — 1. Where the drawee is a fictitious person or a person not. having capacity to contract, and the indorser was aware of the fact at the time he indorsed the instrument; 2.
Página 52 - But a holder who derives his title through a holder in due course, and who is not himself a party to any fraud or illegality affecting the instrument, has all the rights of such former holder in respect of all parties prior to the latter.
Página 127 - Notice of dishonor may be waived, either before the time of giving notice has arrived, or after the omission to give due notice, and the waiver may be express or implied.