 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 Law Student's Helper - Page 2141903Full view - About this book
 | Virginia - 1899 - 724 pages
...TITLE II. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. ARTICLE I. FORM AND INTERPRETATION. §126. BILL OF EXCHANGE DEFINED. — A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing...time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. § 127. BILL NOT AN ASSIGNMENT OF FUNDS IN HANDS OF DRAWEE.— A bill of itself does not operate as... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1887 - 752 pages
...upon the subject." Now, looking at sect. 8, to which he went on to refer, it provides this: — " (1.) A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing,...determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to Iwarer. (2) An instrument which docs not comply with these... | |
 | 1917 - 1312 pages
...the Acts of Arkansas 1913, known as the law of negotiable instruments, defines a bill of exchange: "An unconditional order in writing addressed by one...time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." So far as disclosed in this record, the order in question in form and substance conforms to this definition... | |
 | 1914 - 1414 pages
...unconditional promise in writing 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 in money to order or bearer. Held that, by the repeal of section 483 by the Negotiable Instruments Act, which makes all... | |
 | 1907 - 1332 pages
...made by one to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determlnable future time, a sum certain in money, to order or to bearer." Section 8 of the act Is In these words: "An Instrument Is payable to order where It Is drawn payable... | |
 | Maryland - 1898 - 700 pages
...respect, is a material alteration. CHAPTER X — Bills of Exchange ; Form and Interpretation. 145. A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing...time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. 146. A bill of itself does not operate as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee available... | |
 | 1918 - 1258 pages
...check or a bill of exchange, which instruments are defined in the act as follows: "Sec. 210. * * * A bill of exchange Is an unconditional order In writing...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a iixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." "Sec. 321. * * * A... | |
 | Joseph Fitz Randolph - 1888 - 848 pages
...called she drawee, to pay a specified sum of money," Sec. 3171. ENGLI8H BILL8 OF EXCHANGE ACT, 18S2. — "An unconditional order in writing, addressed by one...person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or deterininable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
 | 1905 - 1266 pages
...Negotiable Instrument Law, §§ 210, 321 (Laws 1897, pp. 745, 756, c. 612), defining a bill of exchange as an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one...another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the addressee to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determluable time, a certain sum of money to order or... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - 1889 - 800 pages
...upon. Bill of exchange. Defined in the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, 45 & 46 Viet. c. 61, s. 3, as ' an unconditional order in writing addressed by one...determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.' It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement... | |
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