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Entering short. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry the amount of the bills directly to his credit, but to 'enter them short,' as it is called, i.e., to note down the receipt of the bills, their amounts, and the times when they become due in a previous column of the page, and the amounts when received are carried forward into the usual cash column. See Giles v. Perkins, (1807) 9 East 13. Sometimes, instead of entering such bills short, bankers credit the customer directly with the amount of the bills as cash, charging interest on any advances they may make on their account, and allow him at once to draw upon them to that amount. If the banker becomes bankrupt, the property in bills entered short, and not credited to the customer unless by way of advance, does not pass to his trustee, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have...

Thistle

Thistle, it was the custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece, called a 'thistle-take,' to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Notinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called thistle-take.It has been held that an occupier of land has no duty towards his neighbour to prevent thistles from seeding, and is not liable to his neighbour for damage by the seeds being blown on to his neighbour's land, Giles v. Walker, (1890) 24 QBD 656...

Under my hand

Under my hand, means a document signed by me which is defective either in form or expression, or in solemnities of authentication, or in both, Waterson's Trustees v. St. Giles Boy's Club, 1943 SC 369....

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