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... Outlines of American Foreign Commerce - Page 201by Avard Longley Bishop - 1923 - 321 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Platt - 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 person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at... | |
| Richard Denny Urlin - 1884 - 240 pages
...relating to these instruments arranged and set forth very clearly. A bill of exchange is by the Act defined as an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the other to pay, on demand or at a fixed time, a certain... | |
| John Indermaur - 1885 - 628 pages
...1882 (&), which codifies the whole law with regard to such instruments. By that Act a bill of exchange is defined as " 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... | |
| James Lorimer - 1885 - 688 pages
...Scotland only, has been adopted for the United Kingdom. 1544. [Definition. — The Act defines a bill as "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... | |
| 1905 - 1266 pages
...Negotiable Instrument Law, §§ 210, 321 (Laws 1897, pp. 745, 756, c. 612), defining a bill of exchange as an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the addressee to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determluable... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - 1889 - 800 pages
...acted upon. Bill of exchange. Defined in the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Viet. c. 61, s. 3, as ' 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... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton - 1892 - 806 pages
...acted upon. Bill of Exchange. Defined in the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Viet. c. 61, a, 3, as '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... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1892 - 398 pages
...in accordance with modern decisions a bill is defined by sect. 3 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, as 'an unconditional order in writing, a'ddressed 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... | |
| Joshua Williams, Thomas Cyprian Williams - 1894 - 720 pages
...425 ; stat. 45 & 46 Viet. (/) Ante, pp. 29, 34—38. c. 61, ss. 30, 89. Act (V), a bill of exchange is defined as an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it (m), requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or... | |
| Queensland. Supreme Court, James Harrison Byrne, R. S. Taylor - 1896 - 358 pages
...exchange apply to cheques, except where otherwise provided (Ib.). A bill of exchange is defined by s. 4 as "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... | |
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