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Half-notes. Sending the halves of bank notes is no payment, and the property in the meantime remains in the sender, Smith v. Mundy, (1860) 3 Ell & Ell 22. But see Redmayne v. Burton Lloyd & Co., (1860) 2 LT 324. (Issuing bankers bound to pay half-notes upon indemnity)...
Bank-notes, or Bank-bills
Bank-notes, or Bank-bills, written or printed promises for money, to be paid by a banking company. They are uniformly made payable on demand. They are not like bills of exchange, mere securities or documents for debt, nor are they so esteemed, but are treated as money in the ordinary course and transactions of business by the general consent of mankind, and, on payment of them, whenever a receipt is required, it is always given as for money, not as for securities or notes. Per Lord Mansfield, Miller v. Race, (1758) 1 Burr at p. 457. Bank of England notes were made a legal tender by the 5th section of the Bank of England Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 98), as amended, everywhere except at the Bank and its branches.One-pound notes and ten-shilling notes are now issued by the Bank of England, under the authority of the (English) Currency and Bank Notes (Amendment) Act, 1928, and made a legal tender for a payment of any amount. The notes first issued were found to be easy to forge, and they we...
Half life
the time it takes for one half of a substance decaying in a first order reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for one half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The half lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true first order processes such as radioactive decay the half life is independent of the quantity of material present and it is thus a constant The time it takes for one half the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced Some chemical reactions are also first order and may be characterized as having a half life However for chemical reactions the half life will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment...
Half
Consisting of a moiety or half as a half bushel a half hour a half dollar a half view...
Half blood
Half blood, means two persons one said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)]The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors. By the old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no distinction between the whole and the half-blood until 1926, when the Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 46 & 47, enacted that the half-blood are only entitled to the distribution of an intestate estate on the total absence of the whole blood in equal degree; see FRATER FRATRI, etc.The relationship existing between persons having the same mother or father, but not both parents in common, Bl...
Half-brother, half-sister
Half-brother, half-sister, a brother or sister by the father's or mother's side only. Marriage with a half-sister of a deceased wife or half-brother of a deceased husband has been legalized; see Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Acts, 1907-1931...
note
note 1 a : a written promise to pay a debt ;specif : promissory note in this entry bank note : a promissory note issued by a bank payable to bearer on demand but without interest and circulating as money cog·no·vit note [kÄ g-nō-vit-, kōg-] : a note in which the maker acknowledges the debt and authorizes the entry of judgment against him or her without notice or a hearing : a note containing a confession of judgment collateral note : a note secured esp. by a collateral mortgage and pledged to secure an obligation of which a hand note usually serves as evidence demand note : a note payable on demand compare time note in this entry floating rate note : a negotiable note that yields an indexed and periodically adjusted variable rate of interest called also floater hand note : a note for an obligation secured by a collateral note non-recourse note : a note whose satisfaction upon default may be obtained only out of the collateral securing it promisso...
Full blood and half blood
Full blood and half blood, two persons are said to be related to each of the by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor or but by different wives. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 3 (c)](i) two persons are said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife, and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives;(ii) two persons are said to be related to each other by uterine blood when they are descended from a common ancestress but by different husbands;Explanation.--In this clause 'ancestor' includes the father and 'ancestress' the mother. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e)]...
Noting
Noting, when a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument, or upon a paper attached thereto, or partly upon each.Such notes must be made within a reasonable time after dishonour, and must specify the date of dishonour, the reason, if any, assigned for such dishonour, or if the instrument has not been expressly dishonoured, the reason why the holder treats it as dishonoured, and the notary's charges. [Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), s. 99]--The making of a memorandum or note on a bill of exchange by a notary which states that he has presented the bill for payment or acceptance, and that it has been dishonoured. It is usual, in cases of non-payment of bills of exchange, for London bankers, after six o'clock on the day upon which the bills fall due, to cause inland bills to be noted. The duty of a notary in protesting a bill consists in thre...
half baked
Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out impractical or unrealistic as a half baked proposal half baked ideas of plans theories proposals etc...
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