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Page v - VDL (the Act of God, the Queen's Enemies, Fire, and all and every other Dangers and Accidents of the Seas, Rivers, and Navigation, of whatever Nature or Kind soever, save risk of Boats so far as Ships are liable thereto, excepted) unto
Page v - Land. One Case of Printed Books, being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered in the like good Order and well conditioned at the aforesaid Port of
Page iv - days after sight of this FIRST of EXCHANGE (second and third of same tenor and date unpaid), pay to the order of John Robertson the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, value received.
Page x - ON SALE.—Goods sent by one party to another, to be sold on his account—a commission of so much per cent, being charged by the person to whom they are sent, for selling them. INDORSATION.—When a person in whose favour a bill has been drawn, writes his name on the back of it, he is said to indorse the
Page ii - Three months after date, pay to me or my order the sum of one hundred pounds, value received. , , „., To Mr Thomas Arnold, Merchant,
Page ii - To Mr Thomas Arnold, Merchant, Thomas Arnold. Strand, London. The banking-house at which the bill is payable is also sometimes stated by the acceptor. If Mr Wilson, who is called the drawer of the bill, wishes to make use of it, he indorses the bill—that is, writes his name across the back of
Page 150 - city of London, Silk Mercer, maketh oath and saith that the said Edward Lindsay, Silk Mercer, in 139 Strand, London, the person against whom a Fiat in Bankruptcy hath been late awarded and issued, and is now in prosecution, teas at and before the date and issuing forth of the said Fiat, and still is justly and truly indebted to this Deponent
Page xix - each. This work was written with the view of supplying a useful and entertaining species of reading among the humbler classes .of the community, and will be found adapted for libraries in the army and navy, hospitals, prisons, schools, and other establishments. INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING LIBRARY. W. and R. CHAMBERS have recently commenced the publication of a series of Original and Selected Works
Page ix - This term is also applied to the allowance or deduction frequently made at the settlement of accounts. Thus a person who is owing an account of £100, on settling it, may receive an allowance of 2^ per cent.; he would therefore pay only £97, 10s.