The Theory and Practice of Banking, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1875 - Banks and banking |
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50 crowns absolute Adam Smith amount assignable attornment Bank Notes Bank of England banker Bills of Exchange Bills of Lading bought and sold bullion called Cause of Value choses-in-action Circulating Medium clear cloth coin coinage commerce Common Law Consommation consume Consumption contract Convertible Securities Creditor Debt Debtor definition denoted doctrine Duty to pay Economic Quantities Economists England English Law equal exactly existence fixed capital floating capital fundamental give given gold and silver Hence increase Instruments of Credit Labour land manifestly Market Price material products means merchant nature Obligation ounce paid Paper Currency payable payment person Political Economy possession pound weight principle profit Promise to pay Promissory Notes purchase received Right of Action Right to demand Roman Law says sell shew shewn shilling Smith sorts species of Property suppose termed things trade transfer true Wealth word writers
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Page 414 - England), or for any other persons whatsoever, ' united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the ' number of six persons, in that part of Great Britain called ' England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money ' on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time ' than six months from the borrowing thereof.
Page 191 - 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...
Page 191 - ... in action shall have had notice that such assignment is disputed by the assignor or any one claiming under him, or of any other opposing or conflicting claims to such debt or chose in action, he shall be entitled, if he think fit, to call upon the several persons making claim thereto to interplead concerning the same, or he may, if he think fit, pay the same into the High Court of Justice under and in conformity with the provisions of the Acts for the relief of trustees.
Page 82 - ... is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its...
Page 191 - ... been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt or chose in action, shall be, and be deemed to have been effectual in law (subject to all equities which would have been entitled to priority over the right of the assignee if this Act had not passed...
Page 182 - Case was the great wisdom and policy of the sages and founders of our law, who have provided that no possibility, right, title, nor thing in action shall be granted or assigned to strangers, for that would be the occasion of multiplying of contentions and suits, of great oppression of the people, and chiefly of terre-tenants, and the subversion of the due and equal execution of justice...
Page 269 - Money, when paid into a bank, ceases altogether to be the money of the principal; it is then the money of the banker, who is bound to return an equivalent by paying a similar sum to that deposited with him when he is asked for it.
Page 340 - It hath been found by long experience that the importing of French commodities of all sorts" (enumerating them) " hath much exhausted the treasure of this nation, lessened the value of the native commodities and manufactures thereof, and greatly impoverished the English artificers and handicrafts, and caused great detriment to the kingdom in general.
Page 33 - What is the proportion which the circulating money of any country bears to the whole value of the annual produce circulated by means of it, it is, perhaps, impossible to determine.
Page 78 - The first work therefore of true induction (as far as regards the discovery of Forms) is the rejection or exclusion of the several natures which are not found in some instance where the given nature is present, or are found in some instance where the given nature is absent, or are found to increase in some instance when the given nature decreases, or to decrease when the given nature increases.