Versuch einer historischen Entwicklung des wahren Ursprungs des Wechselrecht: ein Beitrage zur Geschichte des Handels des Mittelalters |
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Page 239 - Therefore, to the Intent to encourage Trade and Commerce, which will be much advanced, if such Notes shall have the same Effect as Inland Bills of Exchange, and shall be negotiated in like manner...
Page 249 - ... to appeal to the justices of the peace at the next general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the county...
Page 242 - AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall continue and be in Force, for and during Two Years, next after the Passing thereof, and from thence to the End of the next Session of Assembly.
Page 244 - that if any person shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged...
Page 243 - ... obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note for payment of money, indorsement or assignment of any bill of exchange or promissory note for payment...
Page 245 - ... be adjudged guilty of felony, and suffer death as a felon, without benefit of clergy...
Page 240 - ... assigned, or the money therein mentioned, ordered to be paid by indorsement thereon, shall and may maintain...
Page 251 - Complaint as aforesaid shall be adjudged, upon the same being demanded, such Justice or Justices shall, by Warrant under his or their Hand and Seal or Hands and Seals, cause the same to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the Party so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid, together with all Costs and Charges attending such Distress and Sale, and returning the Overplus, if any, to the Owner; and no such Proceedings shall be removed by Certiorari or otherwise into any of His Majesty's Superior...
Page 249 - ... sessions upon due proof of such notice being given as aforesaid, and of the entering into such recognizance, shall hear and finally determine the causes and matters of such appeal in a summary way, and award such costs to the parties appealing or appealed against as they the said justices shall think proper; and the determination of such quarter sessions shall be final binding and conclusive to all intents and purposes.
Page 251 - Action shall have arisen, and not elsewhere ; and the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...