Crittenden Commercial Arithmetic ...Eldredge & Brother, 1875 |
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30 days A.'s investment amount annuity average avoirdupois balance Bank bbls bill of exchange Bill of Lading bonds bushel capital cash charges coins commission compound interest contract cost coupon bonds cubic inches currency debt decimal defalcation denomination difference discount divide dividend divisor Dry Measure equal EXAMPLES firm Firm's fraction franc gain gallons George W given number gold grains hereby holder Hundred Dollars indorsement invoice July June Liabilities loss Mdse merchant MESSRS milreis months Multiply number of days paid par value parties partner partnership payable payment person Philadelphia pound pound sterling premium present worth Price by mail principal promise to pay proportion purchased quotient rate per cent receipt Revenue stamp RULE RULE.-Multiply seal selling share silver sold square term thaler United value received weight whole numbers yards
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Page 305 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand...
Page 145 - Sixty days after sight of this FIRST of EXCHANGE (Second and Third of same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 300 - The holder of a bill presenting the same for acceptance may require that the acceptance be written on the bill, and, if such request is refused, may treat the bill as dishonored.
Page 304 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present...
Page 25 - Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 322 - In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year above written.
Page 310 - A contract is an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing.
Page 266 - Philadelphia (the act of God, the Queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted), unto Mr.
Page 230 - It is a principle in mechanics that the power is to the weight as the velocity of the weight is to the velocity of the power.
Page 308 - And, further, I do hereby authorize and empower any attorney of any court of record of Pennsylvania, or elsewhere, to appear for and to enter judgment against me for the above .sum, with or without declaration, with costs of suit, release of errors, without stay of execution...