Purchase in the open market anywhere various kinds of negotiable paper.
Defn: The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.
His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc.
Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders.
Defn: Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
Of the best quality; -- said of negotiable paper, etc.
Negotiable paper, any commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.
Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.
A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
To us, clad as we are in mountain-soiled tweeds and with no money but British bank-notes negotiable only at a practically infinite distance, this must needs be a reassuring induction.
A number of easily negotiable bonds, what currency we had on hand, etc.
Haven't had a chance to check up, but it looks as though everything in the way of cash and negotiable securities has been taken.
East of the Roye--Frise line began the French portion of the old Somme battlefield; the ground here in places had been heavily shelled, but was quite negotiable by heavy tanks.
M522) The right to receive these was a valuable and negotiable asset.
But they took a hundred and fifty thousand dollars more in negotiable securities--stocks, bonds and so on.
They had knowledge that old Blumenfeld was travelling with a quantity of negotiable securities which he intended to hand to his agent at Marseilles on his way to Cannes, and they meant to relieve him of them!
From the safe they had abstracted negotiable bonds with English, French and Italian notes to the value of over eighty thousand pounds, with which the thieves had got clear away.
Furthermore, he had the amount with him in negotiable securities, and transferred them at once to my hands.
A brief examination showed that they were negotiableby bearer.
Rent-papers thus came in the fifteenth century to be negotiablepaper in somewhat general use.
The negotiable instruments in this room are Soviet funds.
The negotiable certificates in this room will be delivered to their rightful recipient by his personal jet," she continued.
And the custom of business is to consider most such documents negotiable even when in fact they are not so.
They will be sold on a credit of sixty days for negotiable paper satisfactorily endorsed.
After a little Johnny told Mamie, proudly, that it was he who had stolen the negotiable bonds.
He boldly entered a large mercantile house, and, in thirteen minutes, he opened a time-lock vault, and abstracted three hundred thousand dollars worth of negotiable bonds and escaped.
Johnny went into hiding again, and Mamie went to the detective's house, with the negotiable bonds.
I am hounded for the old trick; and the detectives are looking everywhere for thesenegotiable bonds, which I have here, in this satchel.
He knew that the detectives were still looking for him because of the old crime, and that they were hot to discover the thief of the negotiable bonds.
English bank-notes arenegotiable here to some extent.
The law respecting negotiable instruments may be truly declared in the language of Cicero, adopted by Lord Mansfield in Luke v.
In the pockets were found a large amount of negotiable scrip, and no small sum in notes and gold, with the result that Messrs.
Of course, you were hob-nobbing with royalty at the time, so such a trifle as the theft of ten thousand pounds' worth of negotiable securities didn't trouble you a bit.
The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.
It is a negotiable contract giving the holder the privilege to buy a specified number of shares of a certain stock from the maker at a fixed price, within a specified time.
PUTS AND CALLS A "put" is a negotiable contract giving the holder the privilege to sell a specified number of shares of a certain stock to the maker at a fixed price, within a specified time.
The fellow who would be clever enough to slip those negotiable securities out of the envelope and leave the others is going to be too smart to leave his trail exposed.
It hardly seems reasonable that a green boy at the business should know all about negotiable securities, and take only such out of the envelope, leaving all others.
You mean that when I saw him he was buttoning up his coat because he had hurriedly taken those negotiable securities from the package and thrust them in his pocket?
Such indorsement does not make a stock certificate a negotiable instrument, and the purchaser can acquire no better title than is possessed by the seller.
The term "bill" is used in this connection for the reason that a promissory note is a negotiable instrument, and when indorsed it becomes practically a bill of exchange.
A negotiable instrument secured by mortgage or other security, binding the maker to pay certain sums on specific dates.
Other documents may be negotiable in form, such as the ordinary bearer corporation bonds, liberty bonds, certificates of stock, and bills of lading.
If the mortgaged debt is not represented by a negotiable instrument, the assignment of the debt is an assignment of a chose in action.
This is by virtue of the Negotiable Instruments Law, which provides that the holder of a note may discharge any party to it by a written renunciation of his claim.
We made the statement at the beginning of this chapter that the law of negotiable paper came from the continent of Europe and was grudgingly received by the courts of England.
This risk is the same that one runs in regard to negotiable paper.
These problems will be considered in the text-book on Negotiable Instruments.
In taking negotiable paper, therefore, it is always important to see whether these words are present.
A man must intend legally to issue a negotiable instrument in order to be liable on one as maker or drawer.
Again, even where we have a uniform act as, for example, the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act, there are still differences in the law in some States.
The discount of negotiablepaper also is a duty of the directors.
A great variety of letters is required to be written on assigned topics and in connection with the business which is recorded, and thorough instruction is given in the law of negotiable paper, contracts, etc.
Prudence and caution could easily be thrown to the winds, once the negotiable securities were actually in his hands.
She had earlier in the day been placed in possession of all the negotiable part of her fortune.
