Revisal of 1905 of North Carolina: Prepared Under Chapter Three Hundred and Fourteen of the Laws of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three, Volume 1E.M. Uzzell & Company, 1905 |
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Common terms and phrases
administrator affidavit aforesaid amount appeal application appointed attorney bail board of commissioners cause of action chapter civil action civil cases exclusively claim clerk Code complaint conveyance copy corporation commission costs county treasurer creditors debt deed of trust deemed defendant deposit docket dollars duly duty election entitled evidence execution executor fees filed grant guardian homestead issue judge judgment debtor jurisdiction jury justice land letters testamentary liable manner ment Monday in March Monday in September mortgage non compos mentis North Carolina notice oath paid party payment peace penalty pending personal property petition plaintiff pleading prescribed probate prosecution real estate real property receiver record recover register of deeds resident seal secretary sheriff special proceeding stockholders subpoena summons superior court supreme court sureties term therein thereof thereto tion trial of civil trust undertaking unless weeks witness
Popular passages
Page 676 - Where a negotiable instrument is materially altered without the assent of all parties liable thereon, it is avoided, except as against a party who has himself made, authorized or assented to the alteration, and subsequent indorsers.
Page 129 - A statement of any new matter constituting a defense or counterclaim, in ordinary and concise language without repetition. § 1 50. The counterclaim mentioned in the last section, must be one existing in favor of a defendant, and against a plaintiff, between whom a several judgment might be had in the action...
Page 664 - The title of a person who negotiates an instrument is defective within the meaning of this act when he obtained the instrument, or any signature thereto, by fraud, duress, or force and fear, or other unlawful means, or for an illegal consideration, or when he negotiates it in breach of faith, or under such circumstances as amount to a fraud.
Page 677 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 655 - An instrument to be negotiable must conform to the following requirements: 1. It must be in writing and signed by the maker or drawer. 2. Must contain an unconditional promise or order to pay a sum certain in money ; 3. Must be payable on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time ; 4. Must be payable to order or to bearer; and 5. Where the instrument is addressed to a drawee, he must be named or otherwise indicated therein with reasonable certainty.
Page 682 - Where a bill of exchange has been protested for dishonor by non-acceptance, or protested for better security and is not overdue, any person not being a party already liable thereon, may, with the consent of the holder, intervene and accept the bill supra protest for the honor of any party liable thereon or for the honor of the person for whose account the bill is drawn.
Page 143 - In all other cases the court may direct the jury to find a special verdict in writing, upon all or any of the issues, and in all cases may instruct them, if they render a general verdict, to find upon particular questions of fact, to be stated in writing, and may direct a written finding thereon.
Page 658 - As between immediate parties, and as regards a remote party other than a holder in due course, the delivery, in order to be effectual, must be made either by or under the authority of the party making, drawing, accepting, or indorsing, as the case may be; and in such case the delivery may be shown to have been conditional, or for a special purpose only, and not for the purpose of transferring the property in the instrument.
Page 665 - To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith.
Page 680 - Where the holder of a bill drawn payable elsewhere than at the place of business or the residence of the drawee has not time with the exercise of reasonable diligence to present the bill for acceptance before presenting it for payment on the day that it falls due, the delay caused by presenting the bill for acceptance before presenting it for payment is excused, and does not discharge the drawers and indorsers.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Revisal of 1905 of North Carolina: Prepared Under Chapter Three Hundred and Fourteen of the Laws of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three, Volume 1 Revisal of 1905 of North Carolina: Prepared Under Chapter Three Hundred and Fourteen of the Laws of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three, Thomas Brown Womack |
| Authors | North Carolina, Thomas Brown Womack, Needham Y. Gulley, William R. Rodman |
| Publisher | E.M. Uzzell & Company, 1905 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Dec 2007 |
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