The Civil Code of the State of California ...: The State Civil Code, Adopted March 21st, 1872, with the Subsequent Official Statute Amendments to and Including 1927, Annotated

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California Law Book Exchange, 1927 - Civil law - 659 pages

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Page 424 - 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 410 - Where the instrument contains or a person adds to his signature words indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative capacity, he is not liable on the instrument if he was duly authorized; but the mere addition of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, without disclosing his principal, does not exempt him from personal liability.
Page 425 - The acceptance of a bill is the signification by the drawee of his assent to the order of the drawer. The acceptance must be in writing and signed by the drawee. It must not express that the drawee will perform his promise by any other means than the payment of money.
Page 317 - The validity of the negotiation of a receipt is not impaired by the fact that such negotiation was a breach of duty...
Page 427 - 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.
Page 314 - A creditor whose debtor is the owner of a negotiable bill shall be entitled to such aid from courts of appropriate jurisdiction by injunction and otherwise in attaching such bill, or in satisfying the claim by means thereof as is allowed at law or in equity in regard to property which cannot readily be attached or levied upon by ordinary legal process.
Page 456 - Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses,- or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property...
Page 436 - In an action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, where the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice, express or implied, the plaintiff, in addition to the actual damages, may recover damages for the sake of example and by way of punishing the defendant.— 1905 :621.
Page 428 - A bill must be protested at the place where it is dishonored, except that when a bill drawn payable at the place of business, or residence of some person other than the drawee, has been dishonored by non-acceptance, it must be protested for non-payment at the place where it is expressed to be payable, and no further presentment for payment to, or demand on, the drawee is necessary.
Page 417 - Presentment for payment, to be sufficient, must be made : 1. By the holder, or by some person authorized to receive payment on his behalf; 2. At a reasonable hour on a business day; 3. At a proper place as herein defined ; 4. To the person primarily liable on the instrument or if he is absent or inaccessible, to any person found at the place where the presentment is made.

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