 The title of a person who negotiates an instrument is defective within the meaning of this act when he obtained the instrument, or any signature thereto, by fraud, duress or force and fear or other unlawful means, or for an illegal consideration or when...  The New York Supplement - Page 4961903Full view - About this book
 | 1892 - 968 pages
...bill is defective within the meaning of this Act when he obtained the bill or the acceptance thereof by fraud, duress, or force and fear, or other unlawful...or under such circumstances as amount to a fraud." Now this case I think does not come within that provision or anything like it. The only possible words... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1931 - 1632 pages
...instrument or any signature thereof by fraud, duress, or force and fear, or other unlawful means, or for any illegal consideration, or when he negotiates it in breach of faith or under such circumstances ns amount to a fraud." This is part of the negotiable Instruments law of the District. The following... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1916 - 978 pages
...instrument or any signature thereto by fraud, duress, or force and fear, other unlawful means, or for illegal consideration, or when he negotiates it in breach of faith, or under circumstances as amount to a fraud. Section 56 defines notice of infirmity in an instrument or defect... | |
 | 1924 - 594 pages
...thereto by fraud, duress, force, or other unlawful means or for an illegal consideration, but also "when he negotiates it in breach of faith or under such circumstances as amount to a fraud." Since the title of the payee, who negotiated the note, was defective, it was held that under Section... | |
 | 1917 - 880 pages
...same signification as it has in Anglo-American law. To charge a person with bad faith there must exist actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect or knowledge of such facts as to put him on notice. See N. L L. s. 56 and BEA s. 90. In Germany the term is equivalent to "a conviction,... | |
 | North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - 1912 - 812 pages
...this chapter when he obtained the instrument or any signature thereto by fraud, duress, or force, or fear, or other unlawful means, or for an illegal consideration,...or under such circumstances as amount to a fraud." The sugar company negotiated these notes in breach of faith. This court held in First Nat. Bank v.... | |
 | North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - 1903 - 622 pages
...act when he obtained the instrument, or any signature thereto, by fraud, duress, or force and fear or unlawful means, or for an illegal consideration, or...or under such circumstances as amount to a fraud." The above statute was in force when the transaction in question took place, and is controlling. Under... | |
 | 1928 - 1642 pages
...that "the title of a person who negotiates an instrument is defective within the meaning of this act, when he ... negotiates it in breach of faith or under...such circumstances as amount to a fraud." Section 56 provides that "to constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of... | |
 | 1925 - 1624 pages
...55, "the title of a person who negotiates an instrument is defective within the meaning of this act when he obtained the instrument, or any signature...or under such circumstances as amount to a fraud." The plain provisions of the act have been applied, and the duty is held to rest upon the holder to... | |
 | 1920 - 1790 pages
..."The title of a person who negotiates an instrument is defective within the meaning of this chapter when he obtained the instrument, or any signature...of faith, or under such circumstances as amount to fraud." Under the evidence here, and under the finding of the court, the total consideration for the... | |
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