Journal of the Institute of Bankers, Volume 8Institute of Bankers., 1887 - Banks and banking |
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000 omitted advances amount Annuities ASSETS Australia Bank Buildings Bank of England Bills of Exchange bonds borrowing Branches bullion cent certificates Chancellor charge cheque circulation coinage Colonies Company Cornhill Council County Bank currency CURRENT ACCOUNTS custom deeds deposits dirhems discount Dividends Exchequer Finsbury foreign France gold and silver Government grains HENRY House increase India interest Investments issued JOHN Joint Stock Bank Journal King William Street Letters of Credit LIABILITIES Limited Loans stock Lombard Street London Lord Sheffield Manager merchants Messrs metal mortgage Mozley National Debt Commissioners National Provincial Bank negotiable Notes notice Office opinion ordinary paid Paid-up Capital paper Parliament payable payment pence practical present Queensland question received regard registered Reserve rupee Saturday Sunday Monday securities shares South Wales stamp Thursday Total trade transactions transfer Treasury Tuesday usury Vict Wednesday WILLIAM Wilts and Dorset
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Page 485 - Court shall take into consideration a report of the official receiver as to the bankrupt's conduct and affairs, and may either grant or refuse an absolute order of discharge, or suspend the operation of the order for a specified time, or grant an order of discharge subject to any conditions with respect to any earnings or income which may afterwards become due to the bankrupt, or with respect to his after-acquired property...
Page 47 - Where the instrument is not payable on demand, presentment must be made on the day it falls due. Where it is payable on demand, presentment must be made within a reasonable time after its issue, except that in the case of a bill of exchange, presentment for payment will be sufficient if made within a reasonable time after the last negotiation thereof.
Page 45 - 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 to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 42 - Kingdom are to be denoted by adhesive stamps ; (2) every person into whose hands any such bill or note comes in the United Kingdom before it is stamped, shall, before he presents for payment, or indorses, transfers, or in any manner negotiates, or pays, such bill or note, affix thereto a proper adhesive stamp or proper adhesive stamps of sufficient amount, and cancel every stamp so affixed thereto...
Page 225 - No notice of any trust, expressed, implied, or constructive, shall be entered on the register, or be receivable by the registrar, in the case of companies under this Act and registered in England or Ireland.
Page 454 - The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of charge, the custody of Deeds, Writings, and other Securities and Valuables ; the collection of Bills of Exchange, Dividends, and Coupons: and the purchase and sale of Stocks, Shares, and Annuities. Letters of Credit and Circular Notes issued. A Pamphlet, with full particulars, on application.
Page 226 - I may say that I saw the other day with astonishment and disgust the publication in a newspaper of a statement by the foreman of the jury in an important criminal trial as to what took place in the jury room after the jury had retired.
Page 46 - Subject to the provisions of this act, the interpretation of the drawing, indorsement, acceptance, or acceptance supra protest of a bill, is determined by the law of the place where such contract is made.
Page 527 - Three days, called days of grace, are, in every case where the bill itself does not otherwise provide, added to the time of payment as fixed by the bill, and the bill is due and payable on the last day of grace...
Page 112 - The Officers of the Bank are bound not to disclose the transactions of any of its Customers.