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Drawer

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Drawer, the person making a bill of exchange and addressing it to the drawee.

By the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 21, capacity to draw is co-extensive with capacity to contract (except that a corporation is not, by virtue of that section, capable), and by s. 23 signature is essential to liability.

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