 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1817 - 584 pages
...rest. Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date...accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence (Law) - 1824 - 838 pages
...a promise to accept a bill not in ene, will not amount to a legal acceptance. Und. A letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date...exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, anil promising to accept it, if she" n to the person, who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of... | |
 | Law - 1830 - 446 pages
...goods shipped by him to them, was not sufficient to charge them as acceptors. Ib. 8. A letter written within a reasonable time, before or after the date...accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance, binding the person who makes the... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1830 - 522 pages
...the first point, the court decided, in the language of the Supreme Court, in the case of Coolidge vs. Payson, [2 Wheaton, 66] "that the letter within a...bill of Exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken.and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes tl«! bill on... | |
 | Joshua Montefiore - Commercial law - 1830 - 528 pages
...amount to an absolute acceptance as will also an agreement to pay at a future day. A letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date...terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it if shown to a person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, is a virtual acceptance,... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Commercial law - 1831 - 354 pages
...founded on the agreement. It has been determined in the Supreme Court of the US that a letter, written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in intelligible terms, and promising to. accept it, if shown to a person, who afterwards takes the bill... | |
 | John Bayley - Negotiable instruments - 1836 - 700 pages
...Court. " Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this Court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date...accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 670 pages
...rest. Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date...accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise."... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 700 pages
..." Upon a view of the cases which are reported, this court is of the opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date...accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter a virtual acceptance, binding the person who makes the promise."... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Wetmore Story - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 668 pages
...; and upon the footing of the cases before Lord Mansfield, it was then held, that a letter, written within a reasonable time before or after the date...accept it, is, if shown to the person, who afterwards lakes the bill upon the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance, binding the person, who makes the... | |
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Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown... 
