Practical Book-keeping Adapted to Commercial and Judicial Accounting: With Sets of Books and Forms of Accounts |
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31 To Balance 31st Dec 31st December acceptor Accommodation Bills Account-Current Acct Act of Parliament amount Annuities Arrears auditor authorised Balance-Sheet Bank of England Bank of Scotland Bank Stock banker Bills of Exchange Bills Payable Bills Receivable Book-keeping Caledonian Railway Capital Account CASH a/c Cash Book Cash in hand cent Cheque column Company Court Day Book Debenture debit debtor debts discount Dividends Double Entry drawer Edinburgh England Expenditure Factor French Wine funds Guestier hhds Highland Railway indorser Interest investment invoice Journal July July 31 Ledger Ledger Accounts liability lodged London ment month paid parties payment Port Account Profit and Loss purchased Redeemable Rents Royal Bank securities set of books Shares Single Entry sub-section sugar summations Sundries Trade Charges transactions Trust Trusts Scotland United Kingdom Vict Wages White Wine Account
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Page 198 - 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 202 - A cheque is a Bill of Exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Promissory Note. — A Promissory Note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money...
Page 233 - The produce of the earth — all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital — is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
Page 45 - Office of the Company, and, subject to any reasonable Restrictions as to the Time and Manner of inspecting the same that may be imposed by the Company in General Meeting, shall be open to the Inspection of the Members during the Hours of Business...
Page 46 - ... containing the particulars required by these regulations, and properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the company's affairs, and in case they have called for explanations or information from the directors, whether such explanations or information have been given by the directors, and whether they have been satisfactory ; and such report shall be read, together with the report of the directors, at the ordinary meeting.
Page 207 - Kingdom, directing the payment of any sum of money, the same not being payable to bearer or to order, and such letter not being sent or delivered to the person to whom payment is to be made, or to any person on his behalf.
Page 257 - Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that Schedule mentioned : Provided that...
Page 255 - In nominal or inscribed stock issued, or to be issued, by the corporation of any municipal borough, having according to the returns of the last census prior to the date of investment a population exceeding fifty thousand...
Page 251 - ... the debenture stock, of any railway company in Great Britain or Ireland incorporated by special Act of Parliament, and having for ten years next before the date of investment paid a dividend on its ordinary stock...
Page 208 - Provided that, where a bill has been materially altered, but the alteration is not apparent, and the bill is in the hands of a holder in due course, such holder may avail himself of the bill as if it had not been altered, and may enforce payment of it according to its original tenor.