Bankers' Magazine, Journal of the Money Market and Commercial Digest, Volume 5

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BPC (Bankers' Magazine) Limited, 1846 - Banks and banking
 

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Page 24 - An Act for granting to their majesties several rates and duties upon tonnage of ships and vessels, and upon beer, ale, and other liquors, for securing certain recompenses and advantages in the said Act mentioned, to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of fifteen hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the war against France.
Page 159 - It shall be lawful for the trustees or treasurers of any charitable or provident institution or society, or charitable donation or bequest...
Page 348 - The Report of the Committee of the House of Lords contains the following observations upon the effects of cash credits : — " There is also one part of their system which is stated by all the witnesses (and in the opinion of the committee very justly stated) to have had the best effects upon the people of Scotland, and particularly upon the middling and poorer classes of society, in producing and encouraging habits of frugality and industry. The practice referred to is that of cash credits.
Page 371 - In this act the following words and expressions shall have the meanings in this section assigned to them respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; (that is to say), "The expression 'Bill of Sale...
Page 24 - AN ACT to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes, and for giving to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain Privileges for a limited Period.
Page 352 - A cash credit is an undertaking on the part of the bank to advance to an individual such sums of money as he may from time to time require, not exceeding in the whole a certain definite amount ; the individual to whom the credit is given entering into a bond with securities, generally two in number, for the repayment on demand of the sums actually advanced, with interest upon each issue from the day upon which it is made.
Page 371 - ... of an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the further Amendment of the Laws relating to the Poor in England...
Page 28 - May 1844, for the purpose of carrying on the trade or business of bankers within the distance of sixty-five miles from London, and not within the provisions of...
Page 308 - I thought at the trial, and am still of the same opinion, that where a prospectus is issued, and shares collected, for a speculation to be carried on by means of a certain capital to be raised in a certain number of shares, a subscriber is not liable in the first instance, unless the terms of the prospectus in that respect are fulfilled.
Page 38 - ... whom it is drawn has taken place in the interval; that is, unless there is an actual loss to the drawer.

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