 | 1918 - 498 páginas
...promise in writing made by one person to an-v other, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." While by section 4051 an instrument, to be negotiable, must conform to the following... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1887 - 460 páginas
...SEC. 3. (-1) TKat a bill of exchange is an unconditional orJbr iu writing, addressed by one parson to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinahle future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
 | 1884 - 926 páginas
...exchange, and has always been considered the right one. " A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer." That definition completely embraces in it a cheque. A cheque is such an order : an unconditional order... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1881 - 418 páginas
...unconditional'!'" " f order in writing, addressed by one person to another, defined. signed by the person who gives it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1882 - 126 páginas
...and Interpretation. 3. (i.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional BUI of exchange defined. order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer. Sect. 97 saves the Stamp Acts. It is to be noted that many orders for the payment of money require... | |
 | W. D. Thorburn - 1882 - 316 páginas
...is an unconditional order Bi]lof ex. in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed defined, by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer (a). (2.) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders any act to be... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1882 - 726 páginas
...promise iu 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...specified person or to bearer. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning of this section unless... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 páginas
...Interpretation. 3. (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, Hill of exaddressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinablc future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
 | John Indermaur - 1883 - 604 páginas
...instruments. By that Act a bill of exchange is defined as " an un- Definitions of conditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer " (u). A promissory note is defined as " an unconditional promise in writing, made by one person to... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1883 - 592 páginas
...that Act, a Bill of Exchange is defined thus : — " A Bill of Exchange is an unconditional Order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed...to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer " Now it is true that every Bill of Exchange is an Order to pay money : bat every Order to pay money... | |
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Perhaps the best definition of a bill of exchange yet conceived is that in the English Bills of Exchange Act, of 1882, which says: "A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving... 
