A decision of the common law courts held that bills of exchange (written orders to pay a given a sum on a given date) were transferable to other people by successive endorsements.
In that article Professor Hodge says, that the claim of the slaveholder "is found to be nothing more than a transferable claim of service either for life, or for a term of years.
All the ideas which necessarily enter into the definition of slavery are, deprivation of personal liberty, obligation of service at the discretion of another, and the transferable character of the authority and claim of service of the master.
So adventitious a circumstance seems easily transferable without undermining that personal distinction which it had come to embitter.
Language has an irresistible tendency to make thought communistic and ideally transferable to others.
Could this abstract moral habit, this transferable earnestness, be enlisted in rational causes, the Life of Reason would have gained a valuable instrument.
There are limits to communication even among beings of the same race, and the faculties and ideals of one intelligence are not transferablewithout change to any other.
Sidenote: They are transferable to similar beings.
The great majority of the immigrants who received the orders had no desire to go on the land, and as the orders were not transferable they lapsed at the expiration of their currency to the extent of 85 per cent.
On arrival in the colony the passenger was granted in exchange for the warrant a non-transferable land order receivable as cash at face value at sales of suburban and country lands only.
These restrictions lowered the market price of the instrument, although by means of a power of attorney the non-transferable provision was for a time evaded.
Under this arrangement, a trust estate may have transferable shares, exemption of shareholder's liability, and frequently enjoys peculiar advantages in taxation matters.
These tickets to be transferable without the shares upon which they shall have been granted, and capable of being held by persons who may not be subscribers or proprietors.
It would probably take the form of giving additional members to the larger constituencies, and electing them on a transferable vote.
The quantum hypothesis of Professor Planck, referred to above, which regards energy as transferable in definite units and not continuously, is being applied to several physical problems with some measure of success.
It is a peculiar system of personal slavery, by which the person who is called a slave is transferable as a chattel, from hand to hand.
And let no one say that, when men shall no longer have the exclusive andtransferable (by inheritance, etc.
That the transferable nature of the claim was for the benefit of the creditor, because it gave it an active value.
Such contract, whether of a Government or an individual, may be either transferable or not transferable.
Gentlemen may come forward, perhaps, and tell me, that funding the public debt will increase the circulating medium of the country, by means of its transferable quality; but this is denied by the best informed men.
That these debts were ultimately adjusted and reduced to their present transferable form.
The single transferable vote, generally known as the Hare system, was first invented by a Danish statesman, M.
The single transferable vote was proposed to attain this result.
The power to charter companies is not specified in the grant, and I contend is of a nature not transferable by mere implication.
Negotiable paper, any commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.
Defn: The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.
Defn: Capable of being negotiated; transferableby assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
Immediately transferablewealth in the form of gold, ships, and foreign securities; 2.
It is a transferable right, not merely to this or that, but to anything; and its power in this function is proportioned to the range of choice.
True or perfect currency flows freely, like a pure stream; it becomes sluggish or stagnant in proportion to the quantity of less transferable matter which mixes with it, adding to its bulk, but diminishing its purity.
The currency of any country consists of every document acknowledging debt, which is transferable in the country.
Lastly the grant of proprietary and transferableright to land has afforded a new incentive and reward to the successful moneylender.
The law presumes that when a person makes a transferable note, he has done so deliberately; and if loss ensues, it says that he must bear it rather than the innocent purchaser of his note.
Negotiable paper with the words "or bearer" is transferable by delivery alone.
If made payable to some person "or order," it is transferable only by his indorsement.
And yet the Reasoning would appear to be the transferable part in the process, but not to move; and the experience alone to have the moving power, but not to be transmissible.
It is non-transferable because it is based upon the possession of certain qualifications peculiar to the permittee.
The grazing use of the National Forest lands is therefore only a personal and non-transferable privilege.
That all money received shall be vested in transferable annuities, as in the case of the Poor's Fund.
The debts which have been found due to persons by settlements at the Treasury Office, have not been evidenced by transferable certificates for the following reasons.
This funded debt should betransferable under particular forms, calculated for the prevention of fraudulent, and facilitating of honest negotiations.
While the evidence of such debts is in the treasury books and the stock transferable there, the public debt becomes a property, the object of purchase, instead of being as in the other case the means of making purchases as money.
That which is transferable by delivery, assignment or indorsement.
In both these cases, therefore, increase of numbers had not been advantageous as to the effective production of transferable chemical power from the whole quantity of chemical force active at the surfaces of excitation (1120.
A]--The advantageous use of large or small plates for electrolyzations will evidently depend upon the facility with which the transferable power of electricity can pass.
The more gas which is generated upon these surfaces, the greater is the local action and the less the transferable force.
I find that the power is not only greater on the instant, but also that the sum of transferable power, in relation to the whole sum of chemical action at the plates, is much increased.
Whatever tends to retard the circulation of the transferable force, (i.
Such particles, by discharging part of the transferable power, render it, as to the whole battery, local; and so diminish the effect.
If the whole transferable charge be corrected for a loss of 4° previous to division, it gives the expression of l.
If a few foul plates are mingled with many clean ones, they make the action in the different cells irregular, and the transferable power is accordingly diminished, whilst the local and wasted power is increased.
