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Cross-bill

Matched in: Term Cross-bill

cross bill

Matched in: Term cross bill

Metagnathous

Cross billed said of certain birds as the crossbill … Cross billed said of certain birds as the crossbill

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bill

Matched in: Term bill

Crossed cheques

Crossed cheques. It is very usual for the drawer of a cheque to write across it, between two parallel … a banker, and moreover postpones in some measure the payment until the clearing hours in the afternoon. See Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), ss. 76-80; and (English) Bills of Exchange (Crossed

Cheque

(1 of 1879), s. 3; [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 6: A 'cheque' is a bill of exchange drawn on a specified banker and not expressed to be payable otherwise than on demand and … banker protection when 'in good faith and without negligence he receives payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself and the customer has no title or a defective title thereto.' But see

Re-exchange

in Vienna, then and there to raise the exact number of Austrian florins by drawing and negotiating a cross-bill, payable at sight on his endorser in London, for as much English money as will purchase in Vienna

interpleader

between themselves see also bill in the nature of interpleader and bill of interpleader at bill compare counterclaim, cross-claim, impleader, intervention, joinder NOTE: When an interpleader is initiated, the person holding the property or owing the obligation

Reconvention

Reconvention, an action by a defendant against a plaintiff in a former action; a cross-bill or litigation, Ibid. The act or process of making counterclaim, Black's Law Dictionary. Means the act or process

Not negotiable

Not negotiable. These words are sometimes added as part of the crossing of a cheque, with the result that no one who takes the cheque can have or can give … can have or can give a better title than the person had from whom he took it, see Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 81; G.W. Ry. Co. v. London and County Bank, 1901 AC 422. [S.

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