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... The Elements of Mercantile Law - Page 195by Thomas Moffitt Stevens, Herbert Jacobs - 1903 - 483 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
...SEC. 3. (-1) TKat a bill of exchange is an unconditional orJbr iu writing, addressed by one parson to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring...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,... | |
| 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...Interpretation. 3. (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, Hill of exaddressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving...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,... | |
| James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...heretofore, pursuing the opposite policy. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. A RILL of exchange is legally described as "an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a certain sum in money to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
| Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1884 - 822 pages
...treatises as the definition of a bill of exchange, and has always been considered the right one. " A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or dcterminable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
| John Cunningham (barrister-at-law.), Sir Miles Walker Mattinson - Actions and defenses - 1884 - 848 pages
...plaintiff did not give value for the bill. Let me cross-examine him before a jury." A bill of exchange N an unconditional order in writing addressed by one...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or dcterminablc future time, a sum certain in money to. or to the order of. a specified person,... | |
| Banks and banking - 1884 - 1510 pages
...the question naturally arises — what is a Bill of Exchange '? It is a letter of request — nay, an unconditional order in writing addressed by one...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed determinable future time, a sum of money, certain in amount, to a third party, or to any other... | |
| South Australia - Law - 1884 - 330 pages
...and Interpretation. 3. (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, BOI of exchange addressed by one person to another, signed by 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,... | |
| Accounting - 1884 - 512 pages
...Blackstone's definition. The Bill« of Exchange Act, 1882, gives the following definitions:— (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing...addressed by one person to another, signed by the person irking it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable... | |
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