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Strana 38 - But we are all of opinion that the holder of a bill is entitled to know on the day when it becomes due whether it is an honoured or dishonoured bill, and that, if he receive the money, and is suffered to retain it during the whole of that day, the parties who paid it cannot recover it back.
Strana 53 - may safely add, that if it be shown that any personal benefit to the ' bankers themselves is designed, or stipulated for, that circumstance ' above all others will most readily establish the fact that the bankers ' are in privity with the breach of trust which is about to be committed.
Strana 80 - Islands" mean any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the islands of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and the islands adjacent to any of them being part of the dominions of Her Majesty.
Strana 84 - Exchange," on p. 389 (llth ed.), that with respect to promissory notes payable on demand, it has been held that the statute runs from the date of the note and not from the time of the demand, and that this is so although the note be made payable with interest on demand ; and see also "Byles on Bills of Exchange,
Strana 23 - A cheque is a bill of exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand.
Strana 77 - Receipt given for money deposited in any bank, or with any banker, to be accounted for and expressed to be received of the person to whom the same is to be accounted for.
Strana 29 - ... for collection being a banker, he is liable to the true owner of the cheque for any loss he may sustain owing to the cheque having been so paid.
Strana 23 - A bill is payable to order which is expressed to be so payable, or which is expressed to be payable to a particular person, and does not contain words prohibiting transfer or indicating an intention that it should not be transferable.
Strana 53 - Lordships' bar, and I apprehend that you will agree with me when I say that the result of those authorities is clearly this: in order to hold a banker justified in refusing to pay a demand of his customer, the customer being an executor, and drawing a cheque as an executor, there must, in the first place, be some misapplication, some breach of trust, intended by the executor, and there must in the second place, as was said by Sir John Leach, in the well known case of Keane v.
Strana 48 - no authority for saying, that when the law requires a contract to be in writing, that writing must be in ink. There is not any great danger that our decision will induce individuals to adopt the mode of writing by pencil in preference to that in general use. The imperfection of this mode of writing, its liability to obliteration, and the impossibility of proving it when so obliterated, will prevent its being generally adopted

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