 | Maryland - Law - 1898 - 700 pages
...there are omissions therein, the following rules of construction apply : 1. "Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures, and there...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable ; but if the woids are ambiguous or uncertain, references may be had to the figures to... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 912 pages
...certain rules of construction for negotiable instruments, one of which is that "where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures and there is...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable". (Subd. 1, sec. 3098, Civ. Code.) Purely for the purposes of this decision we shall assume... | |
 | Henry Roscoe, Maurice Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1891 - 924 pages
...A. 301 ; ftproivle v. Legge, 1 B. & C. 16. By sect. 9, " (2) Where the sum payable," by a bill, " is expressed in words, and also in figures, and there...the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. Ambiguous and irregular instrumente.'] Sect. 3(1), ante, p. 341, defines a bill of exchange, and (2)... | |
 | John James MacLaren - Bills of exchange - 1892 - 646 pages
...of Chicago v. Cosby, 43 UCQB 58 (1878). ^- Where the sum payable is expressed in words fix0res,imi and also in figures, and there is a discrepancy between...the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable : Imp. Act, s. 9 (2). distinct, or the word " dollars " or " pounds " is omitted, § 9. the figures... | |
 | Barbados - Session laws - 1893 - 462 pages
...directed by the bill. (2) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures and there is u discrepancy between the two the sum denoted by the...instrument otherwise provides, interest runs from the date uf the bill and if the bill is undated from the issue thereof. Bill (iuynble on de- 10. (1) A bill... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1896 - 906 pages
...according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures, and there...the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. (g) The effect of s. 7 (3) is that a bill Vagliano, [1891] AC 107, reversing may be treated as payable... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1896 - 530 pages
...254 makes stipulations for interest inoperative. (^) Where the sum payable is expressed in figures. words and also in figures, and there is a discrepancy...the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable. ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. A bill is drawn, " Pay to the order of C. two hundred pounds." In the margin is superscribed... | |
 | Florida - Law - 1897 - 426 pages
...there are omissions therein, the following rules o construction apply: 1. Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures and there is...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable; but if the words are ambiguous or uncertain, references may be had to the figures to fix... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1898 - 48 pages
...therein, the follow- is ambiguous, ing rules of construction apply : etc' 1. Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures and there is...between the two the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable ; but if the words are ambiguous or uncertain reference may be had to the figures to fix... | |
 | Utah - 1899 - 206 pages
...there are omissions therein, the following rules of construction apply: I. Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures and there is...between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable; but if the words are ambiguous or uncertain, references may be had to the figures to fix... | |
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Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in • figures and there is a discrepancy between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the sum payable; but if the words are ambiguous or uncertain, reference may be had to the figures to fix the... 
