Journal of the Canadian Bankers' Association, Volumes 1-8Canadian Bankers' Association., 1901 |
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Page 93 - Where an overdue bill is negotiated, it can only be negotiated subject to any defect of title affecting it at its maturity, and thenceforward no person who takes it can acquire or give a better title than that which the person from whom he took it had.
Page 89 - Where a person takes a crossed cheque which bears on it the words ' not negotiable, ' he shall not have, and shall not be capable of giving, a better title to the cheque than that which the person from whom he took it had.
Page 276 - Where a bill, issued out of the United Kingdom, conforms, as regards requisites in form, to the law of the United Kingdom, it may, for the purpose of enforcing payment thereof, be treated as valid as between all persons who negotiate, hold, or become parties to it in the United Kingdom.
Page 275 - A contract ... is, in general, invalid in so far as ... the performance of it is unlawful by the law of the country where the contract is to be performed...
Page 126 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 366 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes: In case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote : A director may...
Page 62 - When a bill contains words prohibiting transfer, or indicating an intention that it should not be transferable, it is valid as between the parties thereto, but is not negotiable.
Page 91 - Where a banker in good faith and without negligence receives payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself, and the customer has no title, or a defective title, thereto, the banker shall not incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment.
Page 259 - Payment is made in due course when it is made at or after the maturity of the instrument to the holder thereof in good faith and without notice that his title is defective.
Page 347 - Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering, or from that passive indifference which is sometimes the result of debility and extreme bodily exhaustion.