 | Robert Porrett COLLIER (Baron Monkswell.) - Mining law - 1849 - 238 pages
...such power exists, except in the cases alluded to in the argument, of the master of a ship, and of the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer. " The latter derives its existence from the law of merchants : and in the former case the law, which... | |
 | 1849 - 1152 pages
...without such application. Thisruleof law was univeisal, except in the case of a master of a ship, and the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer. In " Hawtrayne v. Bourne," 7 M. and W., 595, it had been so decided, and it must now be taken to be... | |
 | Thomas Spence - Admission to the bar - 1864 - 456 pages
...him by such indorsement. No agent is empowered to borrow money unless he is the master of a ship, or the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer. The principal has a right in general to enforce all contracts made by the agent on his own account,... | |
 | Victoria. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 380 pages
...to support this proposition. No such power exista except in the case of the master of a ship, and of the acceptor of a bill of exchange, for the honour of the. drawer. The latter derives its existence from the law of merchants, and in the former case the law which generally... | |
 | John Batten - Mining law - 1873 - 188 pages
...borrowing money are that of a ship's master in the event of a sudden emergency at sea, and that of the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer. And Mr. Lindley, in his book on Partnership, 2nd edit, p. 366, lays it down that " at law a partnership... | |
 | India, Charles Colin Macrae - Contracts - 1874 - 274 pages
...employer's account without express authority to do so, were in the case of the master of a ship and the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer. But Mr. Justice Story in his work on Agency (ยงยง 141 & 193) takes a more liberal view of an agent's... | |
 | James Barr Ames - Negotiable instruments - 1881 - 910 pages
...has been suggested. Cur. adv. vult. The judgment of the court was now delivered by LORD TENTERDEN, CJ There were two cases argued yesterday, of Williams...Elder being the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honor of the drawer, and Germaine the Younger being the drawer of the bill. The objection taken in... | |
 | Aviet Agabeg, William Frederick Barry - Bills of exchange - 1884 - 286 pages
...disproved. 120- No maker of a promissory note, and no drawer of a bill of exchange or cheque, and no acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer shall, in a suit thereon by a holder in due course, be permitted to deny the validity of the instrument... | |
 | Tindal Arthur Pearson - Agency (Law) - 1890 - 530 pages
...such power exists, except in the cases alluded to in the argument, of the master of a ship, and of the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer. The latter derives its existence from the law of merchants ; and in the former case the law, which... | |
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No such power exists, except in the cases alluded to in the argument, of the master of a ship, and of the acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer. 
