The Business Man's Encyclopedia: A Hip-pocket Business Counsellor ...System Company, 1905 |
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... hand . If the acceptance is to be written the proposi- tion is accepted as soon as the letter is placed in the mail or telegram is left with the telegraph company . Necessary Elements . - Every contract must contain the five following ...
... hand . If the acceptance is to be written the proposi- tion is accepted as soon as the letter is placed in the mail or telegram is left with the telegraph company . Necessary Elements . - Every contract must contain the five following ...
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... hands and on the way to the buyer at some distant point . This is termed stoppage in transit . Defects . Should there be any defects in the prop- erty or animals , which can be seen , that does not re- lieve the buyer from meeting his ...
... hands and on the way to the buyer at some distant point . This is termed stoppage in transit . Defects . Should there be any defects in the prop- erty or animals , which can be seen , that does not re- lieve the buyer from meeting his ...
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... hands of an innocent holder the law assumes that there was a valuable consideration . Promissory Notes . - A promissory note is a written promise to pay a certain sum of money at a specified time . There are three kinds , individual ...
... hands of an innocent holder the law assumes that there was a valuable consideration . Promissory Notes . - A promissory note is a written promise to pay a certain sum of money at a specified time . There are three kinds , individual ...
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... hands of an innocent holder for fair and full considera- tion and in good faith carries with it a good title , pro- viding ( 1 ) The instrument is negotiable ; ( 2 ) was ob- tained in good faith and for a valuable consideration before ...
... hands of an innocent holder for fair and full considera- tion and in good faith carries with it a good title , pro- viding ( 1 ) The instrument is negotiable ; ( 2 ) was ob- tained in good faith and for a valuable consideration before ...
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... hand at all times a lawful money reserve equaling 25 per cent of the deposits if in a large city , and 15 per cent of the deposits , if located in a small city . Overcertifying Checks . - National banks are pro- hibited under severe ...
... hand at all times a lawful money reserve equaling 25 per cent of the deposits if in a large city , and 15 per cent of the deposits , if located in a small city . Overcertifying Checks . - National banks are pro- hibited under severe ...
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Page 87 - States having common-law jurisdiction and a seal and clerk, two years, at least, prior to his admission, that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 73 - ... or the page immediately following, if it be a book; or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts...
Page 87 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same," he will be admitted to citizenship.
Page 68 - Such oath may be made before any person within the United States authorized by law to administer oaths, or when the applicant resides in a foreign country, before any minister, charge" d'affaires, consul, or commercial agent holding commission under the Government of the United States...
Page 69 - Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. The applicant, patentee, or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey an exclusive right under his application for patent, or patents, to the whole or any specified part of the United States.
Page 71 - States, or resident therein, who shall be the author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, or of a painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be perfected as works of the fine arts...
Page 88 - Any alien, being under the age of twenty-one years, who has resided in the United States three years next preceding his arriving at that age, and who has continued to reside therein to the time he may make application to be admitted a citizen thereof, may, after he arrives at the age of twenty-one years, and after he has resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority...
Page 67 - Every patent shall contain a short title or description of the invention or discovery, correctly indicating its nature and design, and a grant to the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States and the Territories thereof, referring to the specification for the particulars thereof.
Page 67 - Office a written description of the invention or discovery, and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same...
Page 87 - He shall, before he is admitted to citizenship, declare on oath in open court that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly by name to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which he was before a citizen or subject...