The Crittenden Commercial Arithmetic and Business Manual: Designed for the Use of Merchants, Businessmen, Academies, and Commercial Colleges |
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30 days acceptance Account Current Account Sales agent amount attorney average avoirdupois balance bbls bearer becomes due bill of exchange BILL OF LADING bonds bushel Cash charges coins column cost coupon bonds currency days after date debt decimals defalcation difference discount divide the product dividend divisor draft Dry Measure equal EXAMPLES figures florin fraction francs Frankfort Freight gain gallons given number gold grains holder Hundred Dollars indorsement interest investment invoice June June 15 London loss March Mdse MESSRS milreis Multiply number of days paid par value Paris payable payment person Philadelphia piculs pound pound sterling premium present worth principal promise to pay purchased quotient rate per cent Rec'd receipt Revenue stamp RULE RULE.-Multiply selling price Sept shares shillings silver sold square sterling thaler United Value received variable price whole numbers yard York
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Page 207 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 165 - London, (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 order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 165 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading...
Page 205 - 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 93 - Sixty days after sight of this FIRST of EXCHANGE (Second and Third of same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 200 - 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 204 - ... 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 64 - Multiply the amount of the smaller side by the number of days between the two average dates, and divide the product by the balance of the account. The quotient will be the time...
Page 16 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 52 - If the payment be less than the Interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal, but the interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal, and interest is to be computed on the balance as aforesaid.