INDEX.

ABBREVIATIONS, list of, xlv.
ABROAD, bill drawn or payable, 84.
damages on bill dishonoured, 332.

ACCEPTANCE, defined, 20, 105.

dated, deemed to be true date, 95.

of overdue bill, effect of, 81.

where bill or acceptance is undated, 96.

when date of, may be inserted, 96.

undated, presumption as to, 97.

by officer of corporation, 105.

where wrong name for drawee is in bill, 108.
conditions of, valid-in writing, for money, 108.

by parol under law merchant, 109.

promise to accept, 110.

where bill is incomplete or overdue, 111.

by drawee after dishonour, 112.

may be general or qualified, 113.

what is general, 113.

what is qualified, 114.

qualified, may be conditional, partial, etc., 114.

conditional, 114.

partial, 114, 115.

qualified as to time, 114, 115.

by part of drawees only, 114, 115.

list of qualified, not exhaustive, 115.

at particular place, not qualified as in England, 116.

incomplete until delivery or notice, 20, 118.

bill payable at or after sight, presentment for, necessary, 234.
when presentment for, necessary before presentment for pay-
ment, 236.

presentment for, excused if time is too short, 237.

holder must present for, if bill at or after sight, 237.
effect of not presenting for, in reasonable time, 237.

rules as to presentment for, 240.

mode of presentment for, 240.

presentment for, where drawees not partners, 241.

drawee dead, 241.

through post-office, 241.

excuses for non-presentment for, 242.

ACCEPTANCE-Continued.

presentment for, excused where drawee dead or fictitious, 242.

impossible, 242.

irregularity waived, 243.

not excused, because dishonour expected, 243.

two days allowed drawee to decide on, 243.

holding bill beyond two days not, 243.

when bill is dishonoured by non-acceptance, 245.
presentment for payment then unnecessary, 245.

holder may refuse qualified, 246.

if qualified, taken without assent, parties released, 247.
what is assent to qualified, 247.

notice of dishonour by non-acceptance must be given, 266.
if no place of payment is named in, 261.

if place of payment is named in, 262.

alteration in, material, 369.

place of contract determines form of, 384.
ACCEPTANCE FOR HONOUR, 372.

holder need not allow, 373.

is conditional, 373.

may be for part only, 374.

must be in writing and signed, 375.

form of. 375.

for whose honour, 374.

how maturity reckoned, 374.

what it involves, 375.

ACCEPTOR, drawee by accepting becomes, 48, 105.

of overdue bill, liable on demand, 81.

may vary time of payment, 115.

may sign as, on blank paper or incomplete bill, 98.
contract of, incomplete until delivery or notice, 118.
if bill not in hands of, delivery presumed, 124.

when not personally liable, 157.

accepting in a representative character, 157.

as officer of a corporation, 158.

in other representative capacities, 162.

when holder deemed holder for value as against, 174.
when bill may be re-issued by, 225.

presentment for payment to, 247, 250, 254.

not discharged, if bill not presented, 262.

not entitled to notice of dishonour, 269.

suspending payment, protest for better security, 298.
when liable before presentment for payment, 262.

protest not necessary, as against, 293.

bill to be delivered to, on payment, 262.

undertakes to pay bill, 312.

ACCEPTOR-Continued.

estoppel to holder in due course, 312.

estoppel of, as to drawer, 312.

where drawer is payee, 314.

as to payee, 314.

only person signing as, liable as, 316.

bill discharged on payment by, 337.

liable to drawer or endorser on dishonour, 331.

becoming holder at or after maturity discharges bill, 355.
renunciation as to, discharges bill, 357.

in writing or by surrender of bill, 363.

of bill in set not getting part accepted, liable to holder, 382.
ACCEPTOR FOR HONOUR, who may become, 372.

may accept for part only, 374.

must sign as such, 375.

engages to pay bill conditionally, 375.

to whom liable, 375.

estoppels of, 376.

presentment for payment to, 263.

time for presentment for payment to, 263.

if bill dishonoured by, must be protested, 299.

ACCESSORY TO BILL discounted, collateral security is, 176, 439.
ACCOMMODATION BILL, defined, 178.

when deemed to be issued, 179.

when presentment for payment dispensed with, 259.

when notice of dishonour dispensed with, 291, 292.

endorsers, liability of inter se, 353.

discharged when paid by party accommodated, 352.
ACCOMMODATION PARTY, defined, 178.

liable to holder for value, 179.

rights of, 179.

paying bill discharges it, 352.

ACCORD, part payment sufficient in several provinces, 358.

ACT OF HONOUR, formerly necessary, before acceptance, 375.
still necessary before payment for honour, 377.

what must contain, 378.

form of, 479.

ACTION, includes counter-claim and set-off, 21.

against drawee who pays on forged endorsement, 143.
by drawee or endorser who pays on forged endorsement, 150.
evidence of fraud in, shifts onus of proof, 193.

to compel endorsement, 202.

holder may bring, in his own name, 226.
on day of dishonour, whether premature, 265.
limitation of, 344-See Statute of Limitations.
on lost bill, 379.

ADDITION to payment of money in bill, 54, 55, 56.
ADDRESS of bill to drawee, 63.

notice of dishonour at customary, sufficient, 281.
of drawee or acceptor, presentment at, 254.

unless party has given, under his signature, 281.
on posted notice, 282.

ADMINISTRATOR, when personally liable, 157, 162.
may endorse without personal liability, 162, 204.
bill held in capacity of, 356.

AFTER DATE, a determinable future time, 81.
bill payable, if issued undated, 96.

has days of grace, 124.

how maturity reckoned, 128.

presentment for acceptance unnecessary, 236.

AFTER SIGHT-See Sight.

AGENT-See also Principal and Agent.

of bank, when must not act as notary, 38.

signature by procuration, notice of limited authority, 152.
person not capable of contracting may be, 153.

illustrations of powers of, 153.

when not personally liable, 157, 158.

illustrations of liability of, 159.

may give notice of dishonour, 275.

notice of dishonour may be given to, 273.

notice when dishonoured bill is in hands of, 278.
undisclosed principal not liable on bill by, 317.

of holder may cancel bill, 364.

discharge any party, 364.

of payer for honour, may make declaration for act, 378.
cheque crossed to another bank as, 425, 426.

ALBERTA, law of England in, 16.

protest charges in, 307.

ALL SAINTS' DAY, a holiday for bills in Quebec, 127.

ALLONGE, defined, 206.

endorsement may be on, where recognized, 206.

ALTERATION of bill or acceptance, 365.

material, renders bill void, 365.

proviso if not apparent, 365.

what are, 369.

illustrations of, 369.

illustrations of, not material, 371.

ALTERNATIVE, amount in money or, not a bill, 53.
instrument to drawees in, not a bill, 60.

referee in case of need not so considered, 61.
bill may be payable to payees in, 61.