The Theory and Practice of Banking, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1893 |
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... paper currency was depreciated during the whole of the restriction from 1797 to ... Bank of England at this period 25. Collapse of Credit in the autumn of 1825 ... Notes in four days . 33. Issue of £ 1 notes by the Bank , which stays the ...
... paper currency was depreciated during the whole of the restriction from 1797 to ... Bank of England at this period 25. Collapse of Credit in the autumn of 1825 ... Notes in four days . 33. Issue of £ 1 notes by the Bank , which stays the ...
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... Bank of England during 1855 PAGE . 179 . 180 . 180 180 • 180 182 183 on 183 . 184 184 40. Comparative view of the bullion , and the rate of discount of 41. Judicious conduct of the Bank ... Notes issued in excess of the Act . 190 51 . What ...
... Bank of England during 1855 PAGE . 179 . 180 . 180 180 • 180 182 183 on 183 . 184 184 40. Comparative view of the bullion , and the rate of discount of 41. Judicious conduct of the Bank ... Notes issued in excess of the Act . 190 51 . What ...
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... Bank Notes were not a legal tender , and the language invariably applied to them , when their current value differed from their nominal value , was that they were at a discount . When the men of that day saw that the Bank Notes were a ...
... Bank Notes were not a legal tender , and the language invariably applied to them , when their current value differed from their nominal value , was that they were at a discount . When the men of that day saw that the Bank Notes were a ...
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... Paper Currency . Ever since the issue of £ 1 notes people thought of them , when they spoke of prices , as being so many pounds . When the suspension of cash payments first took place , there was a general expectation that the Bank Notes ...
... Paper Currency . Ever since the issue of £ 1 notes people thought of them , when they spoke of prices , as being so many pounds . When the suspension of cash payments first took place , there was a general expectation that the Bank Notes ...
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... Currency . That the Bank directors had failed in the performance of this duty was evident , from the enormous increase in the quantity of their notes , and the great derangement which had taken place in the price of silver and the ...
... Currency . That the Bank directors had failed in the performance of this duty was evident , from the enormous increase in the quantity of their notes , and the great derangement which had taken place in the price of silver and the ...
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advances amount assignats authorised Bank Notes Bank of England Bank of Ireland Bank of Scotland Bank paper banker bearer on demand bill or note bills of exchange Bullion Report capital cash payments caused cent cheque circulating medium coin commercial Commons Company consequence contract country banks creditor crisis debt deposits depreciation difference directors dishonoured doctrine drawer effect equal excessive issues Exchequer bills favour Foreign Exchanges Government guineas holder House increase indorsement instrument issue notes joint stock banks liabilities London Lord Lord Overstone Market price mercantile merchants Metallic Currency negotiable notes payable notice opinion paid panic paper currency Parliament parties payable on demand payable to bearer person price of bullion price of gold principle promise to pay promissory notes quantity rate of discount restriction Scotch banks securities shew silver Sir Robert Peel specie speculation stopped payment theory transfer Vict
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Page 570 - Where in a bill drawer and drawee are the same person, or where the drawee is a fictitious person, or a person not having capacity to contract, the holder may treat the instrument, at his option, either as a bill of exchange or a promissory note.
Page 542 - Partial, that is to say, an acceptance to pay part only of the amount for which the bill is drawn ; 3.
Page 536 - In the hands of any holder other than a holder in due course, a negotiable instrument is subject to the same defenses as if it were non-negotiable. But a holder who derives his title through a holder in due course, and who is not himself a party to any fraud or illegality affecting the instrument, has all the rights of such former holder in respect of all parties prior to the latter.
Page 520 - Where a banker in good faith and without negligence receives payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself, and the customer has no title, or a defective title, thereto, the banker shall not incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment.
Page 580 - Where a bill has been paid for honor, all parties subsequent to the party for whose honor it is paid are discharged, but the payer for honor is subrogated for, and succeeds to, both the rights and duties of the holder as regards the party for whose honor he pays and all parties liable to the latter.
Page 584 - Where two or more parts of a set are negotiated to different holders in due course, the holder whose title first accrues is as between such holders...
Page 469 - ... the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped, unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board...
Page 538 - Where a bill is addressed to two or more drawees who are not partners, presentment must be made to them all...
Page 479 - Act had not passed), to pass and transfer the legal right to such debt or chose in action from the date of such notice, and all legal and other remedies for the same, and the power to give a good discharge for the same, without the concurrence of the assignor...