дать El Brit, Laws, statutis, ete. Banking law. COMMENTARY C+ BELL & BRADFUTE, 12 BANK STREET. MDCCCLXXXII. ест PREFACE. THE Bills of Exchange Bill, drafted by Mr. M. D. Chalmers, Barrister-at-law, was introduced into Parliament by Sir John Lubbock, and was referred to Select Committees in the House of Commons, and afterwards in the House of Lords, in both of which it underwent careful revision. Notwithstanding that the laws of England and Scotland relating to bills and notes were, except in regard to a few points, the same, it was intended that the Bill should not apply to Scotland, and many of the sections were expressed in technical language, which tended to obscure its meaning to Scotch lawyers, and to throw difficulties in the way of its being understood by merchants and bankers on either side of the Tweed. On the suggestion of Sheriff Dove Wilson, well known as the editor of "Thomson's Bills of Exchange," it was resolved to make the Act apply to Scotland. Sheriff Dove Wilson was examined before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, and communicated a valuable memorandum on the differences between English and Scotch law. The Faculty of Advocates approved of the proposal to codify the laws of both countries on this subject, and laid before the Select Committee a report prepared by Mr. R. V. Campbell, Advocate, as convener of a committee to which they had remitted the Bill. In this Report, the peculiarities of Scotch law were pointed out, and the necessity of preserving certain of them; |