Acceptor For Honour - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Acceptor for honour, When the bill of exchange has been noted or protested for non-acceptance or for better security, and any person accepts it supra protest for honour of the drawer or of any one of the indorsers, such person is called an 'acceptor for honour'. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 26 of 1881, s. 7)...
Acceptor
Acceptor, After the drawee of bill has signed his assent upon the bill, or if there are more parts thereof than, one upon one of such parts, and delivered the same, or given notice of such signing to the holder or to some person on his behalf, he is called the acceptor. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 26 of 1881, s. 7)...
Honour
Honour, a seigniory of several manors held under one baron or lord paramount; also those dignities or privileges, degrees of nobility, knighthood, and other titles which flow from the Crown, the fountain of honour, and see the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 72).To honour a bill of exchange or cheque (of the drawee, etc.); to pay....
Acceptor or Accepter
Acceptor or Accepter, a person who accepts a bill of exchange. See ACCEPTANCE....
Honourable
Honourable, a title of courtesy given to the children of earls (except the eldest son in cases where the father has a second title), viscounts and barons; Maids of Honour to the Queen; Justices of the High Court; Lords of Session, Scotland; members of certain colonial Governments. In the case of the son of a peer to whom this title is applied, his wife or widow is also entitled to use it. As to Right Honourable, see PRIVY COUNCIL....
Honour Courts
Honour Courts, tribunals held within honours or seigniories...
Honour, Court of
Honour, Court of, a branch of the Court of Chivalry. See CHIVALRY, COURT OF....
Honour, Judge, His
Honour, Judge, His, is the official designation of a county Court judge...
Office of honour
Office of honour, means an uncompensated public position of considerable dignity and importance to which public trust or interests are confided, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1113....
Titles of Honour
Titles of Honour, are a species of incorporeal hereditament: see Co. Litt. 20 a, and Mr. Hargrave's note (3); Earl Ferrers' Case, 2 Eden, App., p. 373. Accordingly a baronetcy was held to be 'land' within the meaning of the Settled Land Act, 1882, so that heirlooms annexed to the baronetcy could be sold with the leave of the Court, Re Rivett-Carnac, (1885) 30 Ch D 136, Chitty, J....
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