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... The Canadian Law Times - Page 1501892Full view - About this book
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...EXCHANGE. Form 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 by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future... | |
| India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...and Interpretation. Bill of exchange 3. (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in defined. 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... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - Banks and banking - 1883 - 592 pages
...Exchange Act of 1882, is essentially defective. In that Act, a Bill of Exchange is defined thus : — " A Bill of Exchange is an unconditional Order in writing...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... | |
| James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...heretofore, pursuing the opposite policy. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. A RILL of exchange is legally described as "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... | |
| John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 604 pages
...such 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 by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future... | |
| James Walter Smith - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1884 - 164 pages
...subject] and incapable of being excelled in neatness and brevity. Form and Interpretation. S. 3. (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing,...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... | |
| Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1884 - 822 pages
...treatises as the definition of a bill of exchange, and has always been considered the right one. " A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing...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 dcterminable future... | |
| Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1884 - 834 pages
...sections of the B. of Ex. Acts, 1882, relating to bills of exchange are as follows : — Sect. 3. " (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing,...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... | |
| Accounting - 1884 - 512 pages
...Blackstone's definition. The Bill« of Exchange Act, 1882, gives the following definitions:— (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing...addressed by one person to another, signed by the person irking it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable... | |
| Richard Hallilay - Civil procedure - 1884 - 678 pages
...considered.) Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Cheques. Q.—Define a bill of exchange. A.—It is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by...person to another, signed by the person giving it, requesting the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future... | |
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