The History, Law, and Practice of Banking: With an Appendix of Statutes |
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The History, Law, and Practice of Banking: With an Appendix of Statutes Charles Maccarthy Collins No preview available - 2017 |
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acceptance Acceptor action adhesive stamp aforesaid amount authorised 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 Books Broker capital cent Cheque cheque or draft circulation coinage coins commissioners contract corporation or copartnership Court creditors crossed Customer Customer's debt Deposit Receipt depositor discharge discount dishonour Drawer Dublin enacted endorsement established funds gold holder honour instrument interest Irish John Joint Stock Banks liable London Lord Lumbard Street ment Mongan negotiable notice obtained officer paid partners party payable on demand payable to bearer Payee person or persons Post Bills present private Banks promissory note Provincial Bank Shareholders Shares silver stamp duty Statute stopped payment thereof trans transfer Ulster Banking Union Bank United Kingdom unstamped usury words
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Page 229 - 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 154 - 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 318 - 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 155 - 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 313 - 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 299 - 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 313 - Share have been made, under which the sum of pounds has been received. The liabilities of the Company on the first day of January (or July) were — • Debts owing to Sundry persons by the Company On judgment £ On speciality £ On notes or bills £ On simple contracts £ On estimated liabilities £ The Assets of the Company on that day were...
Page 316 - ... 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.
Page 324 - 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 318 - Trade may, on the application of any member of the company, appoint an auditor of the company for the current year, and fix the remuneration to be paid to him by the company for his services. (3) A director or officer of the company shall not be capable of being appointed auditor of the company.