The History, Law, and Practice of Banking: With an Appendix of Statutes |
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acceptance Acceptor Act of Parliament action adhesive stamp aforesaid amount authorised balance bank holiday Bank Notes Bank of England Bank of Ireland Bank of Scotland Banker Banking Company Belfast Banking Company Bill of Exchange Bill or Note Broker capital cent cheque or draft circulation coinage coins contract corporation or copartnership Court creditors crossed Customer Customer's debt Debtor Deposit Receipt depositor Directors discharge discount dishonour Drawer Dublin enacted endorsement established exchange or promissory gold holder instrument interest Irish John Joint Stock Banks liable London Lord Lumbard Street ment negotiable notice obtained paid partners party payable on demand payable to bearer Payee person or persons Post Bills present private Banks promissory note Provincial Bank received Shareholders Shares silver stamp duty Statute thereof transfer Ulster Banking Union Bank United Kingdom unstamped usury Vict words
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Page 241 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 330 - Every Auditor shall be supplied with a Copy of the Balance Sheet, and it shall be his Duty to examine the same, with the Accounts and Vouchers relating thereto.
Page 156 - Where a cheque bears across its face an addition of — (a) the words "and company" or any abbreviation thereof between two parallel transverse lines, either with or without the words "not negotiable...
Page 144 - ... be acquired by or devolve upon her after marriage, including any wages, earnings, money, and property gained or acquired by her in any employment, trade, or occupation, in which she is engaged, or which she carries on separately from her husband, or by the exercise of any literary, artistic or scientific skill.
Page 204 - ... by writing on or across the stamp his name or initials, or the name or initials of his firm, together with the true date of his so writing, so that the stamp may be effectualby cancelled, and rendered incapable of being used for any other instrument...
Page 157 - 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 325 - D. in the first schedule hereto, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit, and a copy of such statement shall be put up in a conspicuous place in the registered office of the Company, and in every branch office or place where the business of the Company is carried on...
Page 311 - England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Page 325 - The Capital of the Company is divided into Shares of each. The number of Shares issued is Calls to the amount of pounds per Share have been made, under which the sum of pounds has been received.
Page 328 - ... altered by special resolution, as to reduce its capital by cancelling any shares which, at the date of the passing of such resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person ; and the provisions of the Companies Act, 1867, shall not apply to any reduction of capital made in pursuance of this section.