The Revised Reports
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ISBN13: 9780217104838
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Wadley the law would give it. If a farther time is specified, which was North. the case in Batsford v. Kebbell, it may be supposed, the time may constitute one of the grounds, upon which the legacy should vest, but when the time appointed is only that, at which the law would put them in possession, it very much fortifies the argument, that it is not meant as the time, at which it should vest, but only, at which they should take possession. I have already given my opinion as to the legacy of 800/. upon which there is no doubt. 1797. SHUTTLEWORTH, Ex Paete. M23' (3 Vesey, 368.) ROROGH Person SvS cash for a bill without the indorsement of the person L, c, from whom he takes it, cannot prove it under his bankruptcy. ' The bankrupt had before his bankruptcy procured cash from Newton for a bill of exchange; but did not indorse the bill; because Newton desired him not to put his name upon it; as he thought the bill would have as good credit without it. Newton proved in respect of the bill, and received a dividend under the commission. The petition was, that the proof might be expunged, and the dividend refunded. Mr. Cooke, for the petition: In Ex parte Whitter in the matter of Jefiery, 7th February, 1790, and in other cases since, Lord Thurlow determined, that a person taking a bill in this manner was a purchaser of it, not a discounter; and therefore could not be admitted to prove. In one of the cases the bankrupt said, there was a private mark upon all bills, which he transferred without indorsement; and when he saw that mark, he considered himself liable to pay, as if he had indorsed: but Lord Thurlow thought that within the same rule. In another case a person had entered into an engagement, that he would pay the bill in the same manner as if he had indors...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217104838 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217104835 |
| Weight | 2.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.54 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 790 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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