... of the person whose signature it purports to be, it is wholly inoperative, and no right to retain the instrument, or to give a discharge therefor, or to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto, can be acquired through or under such signature,... Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia - Page 384by West Virginia - 1907Full view - About this book
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1916 - 848 pages
...Instrument act (Camp. Stat., p. 3734), provides in section 24 that every negotiable instrument shall be deemed prima facie to have been issued for a valuable consideration, and that every person whose signature appears thereon is deemed to have become a party thereto for value.... | |
| Wilber Mercantile Agency - 1872 - 894 pages
...tbe maker, acceptor, etc., will be held liable, even though the same was given without consideration. Every negotiable instrument is deemed prima facie to have been Issued for valuable consideration. No notes or bills given for gambling or Immoral consideration can be collected,... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1912 - 666 pages
...uphold a simple contract Section 1576, Comp. Laws Utah 1907, provides, as far as material here, that "every negotiable instrument is deemed prima facie...to have been issued for a valuable consideration." Section 1577 provides, in part, as follows : "Value is any consideration sufficient to support a simple... | |
| 1911 - 1172 pages
...no right to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto can be acquired under such signature, unless the party against whom it is sought to enforce...such right is precluded from setting up the forgery, a batik, which has paid a check bearing the forged signature of its depositor, on its presentation... | |
| 1917 - 1232 pages
...thereto, can be acquired through or under such signature, unless the party, against whom it is sonsht to enforce such right, is precluded from setting up the forgery or want of authority." [1] A bank is bound to know the signatures of its de[K)sitors. Kenneth Investment Co. v. National Hank... | |
| 1922 - 1148 pages
...E=>For otber cases see ваш« topic and KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes "Ever; negotiable instrument is deemed prima facie to have been issued for a valuable consideration." Under these sections the burden Is not upon the plaintiff, suing upon a check, to show consideration... | |
| Virginia - 1899 - 724 pages
...to enforce payment thereof against any party thereto can be acquired through or under such signature unless the party against whom it is sought to enforce...forgery or want of authority. ARTICLE II. CONSIDERATION. §24. PRESUMPTION OF CONSIDERATION.— Every negotiable instrument is deemed prima facic to have been... | |
| 1914 - 1440 pages
...to specify the value given or that any value has been given therefor, section 9995, providing that every negotiable instrument is deemed prima facie...have been issued for a valuable consideration, and section 10155, providing that a check is a bill of exchange drawn on a bank, payable on demand, and... | |
| 1912 - 1266 pages
...enforce payment thereof against any party thereto, can be acquired through or under such signature, unless the party against whom it is sought to enforce...from setting up the forgery or want of authority. The plaintiff never obtained title to the check. He could not have enforced collection of it, and what... | |
| Maryland - 1898 - 700 pages
...enforce payment thereof against any party thereto, can be acquired through or under such signature, unless the party, against whom it is sought to enforce...from setting up the forgery or want of authority. CHAPTER III— Consideration of Negotiable Instruments. 43. Every negotiable instrument is deemed prima... | |
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