| Topic Serial # |
Content |
Case Law |
|
|
PREAMBLE
|
|
| 0 |
PREAMBLE
|
|
|
|
CHAPTER I
|
|
|
|
PRELIMINARY
|
|
| 1 |
Short title
|
Case Law
|
| 1 |
1-A Application of the Act
|
|
| 2 |
[Repeal of enactments]
|
|
| 3 |
Interpretation-clause
|
|
|
|
CHAPTER II
|
|
|
|
OF NOTES BILLS AND CHEQUES
|
|
| 4 |
Promissory note
|
|
| 5 |
Bill of exchange
|
Case Law
|
| 6 |
Cheque
|
|
| 7 |
Drawer, Drawee
|
|
| 8 |
Holder
|
|
| 9 |
Holder in due course
|
Case Law
|
| 10 |
Payment in due course
|
|
| 11 |
Inland instrument
|
|
| 12 |
Foreign instrument
|
|
| 13 |
Negotiable instrument
|
Case Law
|
| 14 |
Negotiation
|
|
| 15 |
Indorsement
|
|
| 16 |
Indorsement 'in blank' and in 'full'; 'Indorsee'
|
|
| 17 |
Ambiguous instrument
|
|
| 18 |
Where amount is stated differently in figures
|
|
| 19 |
Instruments payable on demand
|
|
| 20 |
Inchoate stamped instruments
|
Case Law
|
| 21 |
'At sight', 'On presentment', 'After sight'
|
|
| 21 |
21-A When note or bill payable on demand is overdue
|
|
| 21 |
21-B A note or bill payable at a determinable future time
|
|
| 21 |
21-C Anti-dating and post-dating
|
|
| 22 |
Maturity
|
Case Law
|
| 23 |
Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so
|
|
| 24 |
Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many days after date or sight
|
|
| 25 |
When day of maturity is a holiday
|
|
|
|
CHAPTER III
|
|
|
|
PARTIES TO NOTES, BILLS AND CHEQUES
|
|
| 26 |
Capacity to make, etc
|
Case Law
|
| 27 |
Agency
|
|
| 27 |
27-A Authority of partners
|
|
| 28 |
Liability of agent signing
|
|
| 28 |
28-A Transferor by delivery and transferee
|
|
| 29 |
Liability of legal representative signing
|
|
| 29 |
29-A Signature essential to liability
|
|
| 29 |
29-B Forged unauthorised signature
|
|
| 29 |
29-C Stranger signing instrument presumed to be indorser
|
|
| 30 |
Liability of drawer
|
|
| 31 |
Liability of drawer of cheque
|
Case Law
|
| 32 |
Liability of maker of note and acceptor of bill
|
|
| 33 |
Only drawee can be acceptor except in need or for honour
|
|
| 34 |
Acceptance by several drawees not partners
|
|
| 35 |
Liability of indorser
|
|
| 36 |
Liability of prior parties to holder in due course
|
|
| 37 |
Maker, drawer and acceptor principals
|
|
| 38 |
Prior party a principal in respect of each subsequent party
|
|
| 38 |
38-A Liability of accommodation party and position of accommodation party
|
|
| 39 |
Suretyship
|
|
| 40 |
Discharge of indorser's liability
|
|
| 41 |
Acceptor bound although indorsement forged
|
|
| 42 |
Acceptance of bill drawn in fictitious name
|
|
| 43 |
Negotiable instrument made etc
|
|
| 44 |
Partial absence or failure of money consideration
|
Case Law
|
| 45 |
Partial failure of consideration not consisting of money
|
|
| 45 |
45-A Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill
|
|
|
|
CHAPTER IV
|
|
|
|
OF NEGOTIATION
|
|
| 46 |
Delivery
|
|
| 47 |
Negotiation by delivery
|
|
| 48 |
Negotiation by indorsement
|
|
| 49 |
Conversion of indorsement in blank into indorsement in full
|
|
| 50 |
Effect of indorsement
|
|
| 51 |
Who may negotiate
|
|
| 52 |
Indorser who excludes his own liability or makes it conditional
|
|
| 53 |
Holder claiming through holder in due course
|
|
| 53 |
53-A Rights of holder in due course
|
|
| 54 |
Instrument indorsed in blank
|
|
| 55 |
Conversion of indorsement in blank into. indorsement
|
|
| 56 |
Requisites of indorsement
|
|
| 57 |
Legal representative cannot by delivery only negotiate instrument indorsed by deceased
|
|
| 57 |
57-A Negotiation of instrument to party already liable thereon
|
|
| 57 |
57-B Rights of holder
|
|
| 58 |
Defective title
|
Case Law
|
| 60 |
Instrument negotiable till payment or satisfaction
|
|
|
|
CHAPTER V
|
|
