A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange: Checks on Bankers, Promisory Notes, Bankers' Cash Notes, and Bank Notes |
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12 East acceptance supra protest acceptor accommodation accommodation bill act of bankruptcy action aforesaid afterwards agent amount Ante assignees assumpsit averment bank Bank of England banker bankrupt Bayl bearer bill drawn bill of exchange bill or note bill payable bona fide holder Burr Campb ceptance ceptor commission consideration contract creditor debt declaration defendant demand discharged dishonour Dougl drawer effect entitled evidence fendant foreign bill give notice given hand-writing hands Holt indorser inland bill insolvent John jury laches letter liable Lord Ellenborough Lord Kenyon Lord Mansfield maker ment negotiable non-acceptance non-payment nonsuited note payable paid partner party pay the bill payee plaintiff Poth promise to pay promissory note proof protest prove Raym received recover refused rule Salk Smith stamp Stark statute Stra sued sufficient Taunt thereof third person tion transfer trial usury verdict
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Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 527 - Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 151 - There, in an action by the indorsee of a bill of exchange against the acceptor...
Page 326 - Campbell moved for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial, and he cited the words of LAWRENCE, J., in Parker v.
Page 541 - Payment of any Principal or Money to be lent, or covenanted to be performed, upon or for any Usury, whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken above the Rate of Six Pounds in the Hundred, as aforesaid, shall be utterly void...
Page 527 - ... shall hear, and finally determine, the causes and matters of such appeal, in a summary way, and award such costs to the parties appealing, or appealed against as they the said justices shall think proper, and the determination of such general or quarter sessions shall be final...
Page 363 - That all notes in writing, that after the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and five, shall be made and signed by any person or persons, body politic or corporate, or by the servant or agent of any corporation, banker, goldsmith, merchant, or trader...
Page 527 - ... to appeal to the justices of the peace at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the
Page 481 - ... any notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by such bankrupt committed, or that he was insolvent, or had stopped payment...
Page 351 - Wherefore I, the said notary, at the request aforesaid, have protested, and by these presents do solemnly protest, as well against the Drawer...