Virginia Appeals: Decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 20Appeals Press, 1920 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 242 - Every holder is deemed prima facie to be a holder in due course; but when it is shown that the title of any person who has negotiated the instrument was defective, the burden is on the holder to prove that he or some person under whom he claims acquired the title as a holder in due course.
Page 66 - Where the transferee receives notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same before he has paid the full amount agreed to be paid therefor, he will be deemed a holder in due course only to the extent of the amount theretofore paid by him.
Page 115 - When parties have deliberately put their engagements into writing, in such terms as import a legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of such engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, were reduced to writing...
Page 76 - Every negotiable instrument is deemed prima facie to have been issued for a valuable consideration; and every person whose signature appears thereon to have become a party thereto for value.
Page 257 - Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of One ($1.00) Dollars to him paid by the party of the second part...
Page 115 - ... or declarations at the time when it was completed, or afterwards, as it would tend in many instances to substitute a new and different contract for the one which was really agreed upon, to the prejudice, possibly, of one of the parties, is rejected.
Page 279 - No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title...
Page 400 - ... may take cognizance of all questions of law affecting the legal title that may arise in any proceeding.