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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Chapter IV

Title: Of Negotiation

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....party. Illustration The acceptor of a bill of exchange, when he accepted it, deposited with the drawer certain goods as a collateral security for the payment of the bill, with power to the drawer to sell the goods and apply the proceeds in discharge of the bill if it were not paid at maturity. The bill not having been paid at maturity, the drawer sold the goods and retained the proceeds, but indorsed the bill to A. A's title is subject to the same objection as the drawer's title. Section 60 - Instrument negotiable till payment or satisfaction A negotiable instrument may be negotiated (except by the maker, drawee or acceptor after maturity) until payment or satisfaction thereof by the maker, drawee or acceptor at or after maturity, but not after such payment or satisfaction.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 118

Title: Presumptions as to Negotiable Instruments

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....bearing a date was made or drawn on such date; (c) as to time of acceptance--that every accepted bill of exchange was accepted within a reasonable time after its date and before its maturity; (d) as to time of transfer--that every transfer of a negotiable instrument was made before its maturity; (e) as to order of indorsements--that the indorsements appearing upon a negotiable instrument were made in the order in which they appear thereon; (f) as to stamps--that a lost promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque was duly stamped; (g) that holder is a holder in due course--that the holder of a negotiable instrument is a holder in due course: provided that, where the instrument has been obtained from its lawful owner, or from any person in lawful custody thereof, by means of an offence or fraud, or has been obtained from the maker or acceptor thereof by means of an offence or fraud, or for unlawful consideration, the burden of proving that the holder is a holder in due course lies upon him.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....When the holder of an accepted bill of exchange enters into any contract with the acceptor which, under section 134 or 135 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), would discharge the other parties, the holder may expressly reserve his right to charge the other parties, and in such case they are not discharged. SECTION 40: DISCHARGE OF INDORSER'S LIABILITY Where the holder of a negotiable instrument, without the consent of the indorser, destroys or impairs the indorser's remedy against a prior party, the indorser is discharged from liability to the holder to the same extent as if the instrument had been paid at maturity. Illustration A is the holder of a bill of exchange made payable to the order of B, which contains the following indorsements in blank- First indorsement, "B". Second indorsement, "Peter Williams". Third indorsement "Wright & Co." Fourth indorsement "John Rozario". This bill A puts in suit against John Rozario and strikes out, without John Rozario's consent, the indorsements by Peter Williams and Wright & Co. A is not entitled to recover anything from John Rozario. SECTION 41: ACCEPTOR BOUND, ALTHOUGH INDORSEMENT FORGED An acceptor of a bill of.....

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 47

Title: Negotiation by Delivery

State: Central

Year: 1881

Subject to the provisions of section 58, a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque payable to bearer is negotiable by delivery thereof. Exception.--A promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque delivered on condition that it is not to take effect except in a certain event is not negotiable (except in the hands of a holder for value without notice of the condition) unless such event happens. Illustrations (a) A, the holder of a negotiable instrument payable to bearer, delivers it to B's agent to keep for B. The instrument has been negotiated. (b) A, the holder of a negotiable instrument payable to bearer, which is in the hands of A's banker, who is at the time the banker of B, directs the banker to transfer the instrument to B's credit in the banker's account with B. The banker does so, and accordingly now possesses the instrument as B's agent. The instrument has been negotiated, and B has become the holder of it.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 43

Title: Negotiable Instrument Made, Etc., Without Consideration

State: Central

Year: 1881

A negotiable instrument made, drawn, accepted, indorsed, or transferred without consideration, or for a consideration which fails, creates no obligation of payment between the parties to the transaction. But if any such party has transferred the instrument with or without indorsement to a holder for consideration, such holder, and every subsequent holder deriving title from him, may recover the amount due on such instrument from the transferor for consideration or any prior party thereto. Exception I.--No party for whose accommodation a negotiable instrument has been made, drawn, accepted or indorsed can, if he has paid the amount thereof, recover -thereon such amount from any person who became a party to such instrument for his accommodation. Exception II.--No party to the instrument who has induced any other party to make, draw, accept, indorse or transfer the same to him for a consideration which he has failed to pay or perform in full shall recover therein an amount exceeding the value of the consideration (if any) which he has actually paid or performed.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Complete Act

Title: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

State: Central

Year: 1881

Preamble1 - NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 Chapter I Section1 - Short title Section2 - Repeal of enactments Section3 - Interpretation clause Chapter II Section4 - "Promissory note" Section5 - "Bill of exchange" Section6 - "Cheque" Section7 - "Drawer", "drawee" Section8 - "Holder" Section9 - "Holder in due course" Section10 - "Payment in due course" Section11 - "Inland instrument" Section12 - "Foreign instrument." Section13 - "Negotiable instrument" Section14 - Negotiation Section15 - Indorsement Section16 - Indorsement "in blank" and "in full"--"Indorsee" Section17 - Ambiguous instruments Section18 - Where amount is stated differently in figures and words Section19 - Instruments payable on demand Section20 - Inchoate stamped instruments Section21 - "At sight", "On presentment", "After sight" Section22 - "Maturity" Section23 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many months after date or sight Section24 - Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many days after date or sight Section25 - When day of maturity is a holiday Chapter III Section26 - Capacity to make, etc., promissory notes, etc. Section27 - Agency Section28 - Liability of.....

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 52

Title: Indorser Who Excludes His Own Liability or Makes It Conditional

State: Central

Year: 1881

The indorser of a negotiable instrument may, by express words in the indorsement, exclude his own liability thereon, or make such liability or the right of the indorsee to receive the amount due thereon depend upon the happening of a specified event, although such event may never happen. Where an indorser so excludes his liability and afterwards becomes the holder of the instrument all intermediate indorsers are liable to him. Illustrations (a) The indorser of a negotiable instrument signs his name, adding the words-- "Without recourse". Upon this indorsement he incurs no liability. (b) A is the payee and holder of a negotiable instrument. Excluding personal liability by an indorsement "without recourse", he transfers the instrument to B, and B indorses it to C, who indorses it to A. A is not only reinstated in his former rights, but has the rights of an indorsee against B and C.

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Amending Act 1

Title: Amendment Act

State: Central

Year: 1881

..... P RAEMBLE An Act further to amend the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 , the B ankers' B ooks Evidence Act, 1891 and the Information Technology Act, 2000 . BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-third year of the Republic of India as follows:-- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1 . Sh ort title and commencement ( 1 ) This Act may be called the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 . ( 2 ) It sh all come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act. CHAPTER II AMENDMENTS TO THE NEGOTIA B LE INSTRUMENTS ACT, 1881 2 . Sub stitution of new section for section 6 For section 6 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 ( 26 of 1881 ) (h ereinafter in this Chapter referred to as the principal Act), the following section sh all be sub stituted, namely:-- ' 6 . "Cheque".--A "cheque" is a bill of exchange dr awn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable other wise than on demand and it includes the electronic image of a truncated cheque and a cheque in the electronic form. Explanation I.--For the.....

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Chapter XIII

Title: Special Rules of Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1881

.....- Presumption on proof of protest In a suit upon an instrument which has been dishonoured, the Court shall, on proof of the protest, presume the fact of dishonour, unless and until such fact is disproved. Section 120 - Estoppel against denying original validity of instrument No maker of a promissory note, and no drawer of a bill of exchange or cheque, and no acceptor of a bill of exchange for the honour of the drawer shall, in a suit thereon by a holder in due course, be permitted to deny the validity of the instrument as originally made or drawn. Section 121 - Estoppel against denying capacity of payee to indorse No maker of a promissory note and no acceptor of a bill of exchange1[payable to ord er] sh all, in a suit thereon by a holder in due course, be permitted to deny the payee's capacity, at the rate of the note or bill, to indorse the same. ___________________ 1. Substituted by Act 8 of 1919, sec. 5, for "payable to, or to the order of, a specified person". Section 122 - Estoppel against denying signature or capacity of prior party No indorser of a negotiable instrument shall, in a suit thereon by a subsequent holder, be permitted to deny the.....

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 Section 23

Title: Calculating Maturity of Bill or Note Payable So Many Months After Date or Sight

State: Central

Year: 1881

In calculating the date at which a promissory note or bill of exchange, made payable at stated number of months after date or after sight, or after a certain event, is at maturity, the period stated shall be held to terminate on the day of months which corresponds with the day on which the instrument is dated, or presented for acceptance or sight, or noted for non-acceptance, or protested for non-acceptance, or the event happens, or, where the instrument is a bill of exchange made payable a stated number of months after sight and has been accepted for honour, with the day on which it was so accepted. If the month in which the period would terminate has no corresponding day, the period shall be held to terminate on the last day of such month. Illustrations (a) A negotiable instrument dated 29th January, 1878, is made payable at one month after date. The instrument is at maturity on the third day after the 28th February, 1878. (b) A negotiable instrument, dated 30th August, 1878, is made payable three months after date. The instrument is at maturity on the 3rd December, 1878. (c) A promissory note or bill of exchange, dated 31st August, 1878, is made payable three months a