 | United States. Supreme Court - 1817 - 584 páginas
...letter, written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a hill- of exchange, descrihing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards t;.kes the bill on the credit of th« letter, a virtual acceptance, hinding the person who makes the... | |
 | Thomas Peake - 1824 - 838 páginas
...bill not in ene, will not amount to a legal acceptance. Und. 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, anil promising to accept it, if she" n to the person, who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 páginas
...Court, in the case of Coolidge i«. Payson, [2 Wheaton, 66] "that the letter within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of Exchange, describing...accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards Jakes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance, binding the person who makes the... | |
 | James Kent - 1828 - 432 páginas
...within a reasonable time before or after the date of the bill, describing it, and promising to accept of it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill upon the credit of that letter, a virtual acceptance, and binding upon the person who makes the promise.... | |
 | 1830 - 446 páginas
...them, was not sufficient to charge them as acceptors. Ib. 8. A letter written within a reasonable time, before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing...acceptance, binding the person who makes the promise. Ib.' 9. A written demand of payment, on the maker of a promissory note, transmitted to him by mail,... | |
 | Joshua Montefiore - 1830 - 528 páginas
...acceptance as will also an agreement to pay at a future day. A letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing...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,... | |
 | 1830 - 522 páginas
...Court, in the case of Coolidge vs. Payson, [2 Wheaton, 66] "that the letter 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 to the person who afterwards takes tl«! bill on... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1831 - 354 páginas
...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 - 1836 - 700 páginas
...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...acceptance binding the person who makes the promise. This is such a case." "The mere circumstance that the bill was taken for a pre-existing debt has not... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 670 páginas
...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...acceptance binding the person who makes the promise." The judgment of the court below was affirmed. On the first point, therefore, I am of opinion that there... | |
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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... 
