 | Henry Dutton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 602 pages
...exchange is an open letter of request from one person to another, desiring, directing, or authorizing him to pay a sum of money therein mentioned, to a third person ; and it is consequently an assignment to the payee, of a debt due from the drawee to the drawer. The parties... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1835 - 718 pages
...of Chitty, " is defined to be an open letter of request from, and order by, one person on another, to pay a sum of money therein mentioned to a third person." But if they are not " notes" nor " bills," are they not obligations?" Are they not embraced in this... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1835 - 662 pages
...of Chitty, " is defined to he an open letter of request from, and order by, one person on another, to pay a sum of money therein mentioned to a third person." But if they are not " notes" nor " bills," are they not obligations?" Are they not embraced in this... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...bill of exchange is defined to be an open letter of request from, and order by, one person on another, to pay a sum of money therein mentioned to a third person, on demand or at a future time therein specified. 2 Bl. Com. 466; Bayl. on Bills, 1 ; Chit. Bills, 1... | |
 | Roswell Park - Best books - 1847 - 626 pages
...A charter party is a contract for hiring or chartering a vessel. Primage is a per-cent;ige on tlje freight, allowed to the captain : average includes...whose favor the bill is nominally drawn ; and the presenter, who finally presents it for payment. When the drawee has acknowledged the bill to be payable... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1847 - 632 pages
...possible the cargo. On all these points, certain general rules and principles are understood, or agreed K. upon, by merchants, even of different nations; and...whose favor the bill is nominally drawn ; and the presenter, who finally presents it for payment. • When the drawee has acknowledged the bill to be... | |
 | Joel Tiffany, New York (State). Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 802 pages
...of exchange is defined to be " an open letter of request from, and order by, one person on another to pay a sum of money therein mentioned to a third person, on demand, or at a future time therein specified " (1 Bouv. Law Dictionary, 189). A draft, at the present... | |
 | Richard Hallilay - Law - 1873 - 216 pages
...written order from one person (called the drawer') to another (called the drawee) requesting that other to pay a sum of money therein mentioned to a third person (called the payee) or his order. After the drawee has consented to do so, which he does by writing... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1102 pages
...of Chitty, " is defined to be an open letter of request from, and order by, one person on another, to pay a sum of money therein mentioned to a third person." But if they are not " notes" nor " bills," are they not " obligations ?" Are they not embraced in this... | |
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A bill of exchange," so run the very first words of Chitty, " is defined to be an open letter of request from, and order by, one person on another, to pay a sum of money therein mentioned to a third person. 
