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bill

bill 1 : a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment ;also : the law itself [the GI ] ap·pro·pri·a·tions

Foreign exchange

Foreign exchange, means foreign currency and includes-- (i) deposits, credits and balances payable in any foreign currency, (ii) drafts, travellers cheques, letters of credit or bills of exchange, expressed or drawn in Indian currency but payable in

Clearing

Clearing, a among London bankers a method adopted by them for exchanging the drafts of each other's houses, and settling the difference. At fixed hours, each day, a clerk from each banker

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Bill of Exchange

April, 1880. See now (English) R. S. C. Ord. III., r. 6, and Ord. XIV. See also BANKER'S DRAFT; CHEQUE; NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS; PROMISSORY NOTES PROTEST; NOTE A BILL, TO; INCHOATE. Includes a hundi and a cheque. [The

Overdraft

The act of overdrawing a draft in excess of the credit balance also the amount or sum overdrawn

Projet

A plan proposed a draft of a proposed measure a project

Redraw

To draw again to make a second draft or copy of to redraft

Acceptance of bill of exchange

due. In commercial parlance acceptance of a bill of exchange is the drawee's signed engagement to honour the draft as presented, American Express Bork Ltd. v. Calcutta Steel Co., (1993) 2 SCC 199 (207). [Negotiable Instruments Act,

Act of Parliament

enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal presented to the legislature for enactment, Law Dictionary, James A. Ballentine, Second

Advance note

Advance note. A draft on the owners of a ship or their agents issued by the captain to a seaman for a

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