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... Journal of the Institute of Bankers - Page 452by Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1882Full view - About this book
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1258 pages
...check or a bill of exchange, which instruments are defined in the act as follows: "Sec. 210. * * * A bill of exchange Is an unconditional order In writing...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a iixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." "Sec. 321. * * * A... | |
| Joseph Fitz Randolph - Commercial law - 1888 - 848 pages
...called she drawee, to pay a specified sum of money," Sec. 3171. ENGLI8H BILL8 OF EXCHANGE ACT, 18S2. — "An unconditional order in writing, addressed by one...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or deterininable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1266 pages
...Negotiable Instrument Law, §§ 210, 321 (Laws 1897, pp. 745, 756, c. 612), defining a bill of exchange as an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one...another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the addressee to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determluable time, a certain sum of money to order or... | |
| Law - 1889 - 896 pages
...describes as a codifying Act, declaring what was and is the law, and cites section 1 (1), which enacts that "a bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing,...to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinate future time, a sum certain in in money to, or to tbe order of, specified person,... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - Law - 1889 - 800 pages
...upon. Bill of exchange. Defined in the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Viet. c. 61, s. 3, as ' an unconditional order in writing addressed by one...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,... | |
| Frederick Hayne Carter - Accounting - 1890 - 338 pages
...that received by the banker, merchant, or trader in his office or place of residence at the time." A Bill of Exchange is an unconditional order in writing,...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,... | |
| Frederick Stroud - Law - 1890 - 1062 pages
...Times Tlep. 159 : Denbigh and Flint Case, Ib. 160 : Shrewsbury Case, Ib. 160. BILL OF EXCHANGE.— "A Bill of Exchange is an Unconditional Order in Writing,...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,... | |
| John Augustus Barron - Bills of exchange - 1890 - 152 pages
...unconditional order in writ- BUI of exing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the fined, 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,... | |
| Charles George Walpole - Common law - 1891 - 398 pages
...Ambrose v. Kerrison, 10 CB 776. CHAPTER IX. INSTRUMENTS NEGOTIABLE BY INDORSEMENT AND DELIVERY. I. A BILL OF EXCHANGE is an unconditional order in writing...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed and determinable time a sum of money to, or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer,... | |
| James Shaw Sinclair - Forms (Law) - 1891 - 430 pages
...Banker, payable on demand : Bills of Exchange Act, 1890 (53 Vic., c. 33, s. 72), page 26 ; a " BUI of Exchange is an unconditional order in writing addressed...to whom it is addressed to pay, on demand or at a fixed determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person or... | |
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