Journal of the Institute of Bankers, Volume 44Institute of Bankers., 1923 - Banks and banking |
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Page 89 - A bill of exchange is 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 a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 221 - Certificates ; Warrants or Orders for the Delivery of Goods, or any other Documents used in the ordinary Course of Business as Proof of the Possession or. Control of Goods, or authorizing or purporting to authorize, either by Endorsement or by Delivery, the Possessor of such Document to transfer or receive Goods thereby represented...
Page 310 - ... where there have been mutual credits, mutual debts, or other mutual dealings between the bankrupt and any other person proving or claiming to prove a debt under his bankruptcy, an account shall be taken of what is due from the one party to the other in respect of such mutual dealings, and the sum due from the one party shall be set off against any sum due from the other party, and the balance of such account, and no more, shall be claimed or paid on either side respectively...
Page 181 - Holder" means the payee or indorsee of a bill or note, who is in possession of it, or the bearer thereof. "Indorsement" means an indorsement completed by delivery.
Page 228 - I think, that, where money is paid to another under the influence of a mistake, that is, upon the supposition that a specific fact is true, which would entitle the other to the money...
Page 234 - who receives it has a right to consider it us his without dispute : " he spends it in confidence that it is his ; and it would be most " mischievous and unjust, if he who has acquiesced in the right by " such voluntary payment, should be at liberty, at any time " within the statute of limitations, to rip up the matter, and "recover back the money.
Page 91 - Minneapolis, with interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum until paid.
Page 35 - The names and addresses of the vendors of any property purchased or acquired by the company, or proposed so to be purchased or acquired, which is to be paid for wholly or partly out of the proceeds of the issue offered for subscription by the prospectus, or the purchase or acquisition of which...
Page 35 - ... have been issued, or agreed to be issued, as fully or partly paid up otherwise than in cash, and in the latter case the extent to which they are so paid up, and in either case the consideration for which those shares or debentures have been issued or are proposed or intended to be issued...
Page 35 - ... or management or deferred, shares, if any, and the nature and extent of the interest of the holders in the property and profits of the company...