| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 792 pages
...1536) 399 5. Drome, before acceptance, liable to aarnishmtnt. — A bill of exchange, until accepted, does not operate as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee, which may therefore be attached by process of garnishment. (Expressly overruling Connoley v. Cheesborougb,... | |
| Leone Levi - Commercial law - 1863 - 572 pages
...the acceptance the authority should be refused, inasmuch as the drawing does not operate ° acce!' ' as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee (d). Where the drawee is found to be an infant, or a married woman, Infancy of drawee a just the holder... | |
| Sir John Barnard Byles - Bills of exchange - 1874 - 860 pages
...Gibson, 5 Duer, 574 ; Buttei worth v. Peck, 5 Bosworth, 841. A bill of exchange does not, until accepted, operate as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee. Sands v. Matthews, 27 Alabama, 309; К ¡in hull v. Donald, 20 Missouri, 577; Enfler v. Rice, Ibid.... | |
| American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...unconditional orJbr iu writing, addressed by one parson to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinahle future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
| Banks and banking - 1884 - 926 pages
...unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1881 - 418 pages
...f order in writing, addressed by one person to another, defined. signed by the person who gives it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 896 pages
...exchange." In Semd» v. Matthews, 27 Ala. 399, it was held that a bill of exchange, until accepted, does not operate as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee. See Edw. on Bills, 172; Byles on Bills, 67, 96 and 191, and notes; 1 Pars, on Notes and Bills, 42,... | |
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...exchange defined. order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
| W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...Bi]lof ex. in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed defined, by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person,... | |
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