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What is the difference between Bills of Exchange and Promissory Note?

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 11, 2017Leave a comment

A promissory note or bill of exchange or cheque payables either to the order or bearer are deemed as the instruments under negotiable instrument acts of 1881. The promissory note is actually an undertaking from the debtor to pay a certain sum of amount to the creditor or to his order. The bill of exchange…

Difference between Assignment and Negotiation

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

An assignment is when the rights, title, and interest in debts due or accruing due to a person are transferred to another person. The debts which are sought to be assigned may be present, future, conditional or contingent charge by way of assignment can be created under actionable claim. Transfer of   Life Insurance Policy, National…

What is the effect of “not negotiable” mark on a cheque?

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

Section 130 of Negotiable acts 1881 provides that ‘a person taking a cheque crossed generally or specially bearing in either case the words ‘not negotiable’ shall not have and shall not be capable of giving a better title to the cheque than that which the person from whom he took it had’. According to above…

General and special crossing of cheques

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 20172 Comments

When simply two parallel transverse lines either with or without any words appearing on the face of a cheque, that cheque is called crossed cheque. Normally cheques are crossed on left top corner of a cheque, because such crossing is prominently visible to whosoever handles it. The crossing of cheques can be classified as 1.General…

Collecting banker’s responsibility

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

Section 131 in The Negotiable Instrument Acts, 1881 provides that. “A banker who has in good faith and without negligence received payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or especially to him shall not, in case the title to the cheque proves defective, incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque…

Paying banker’s responsibilities

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

The section 85(1), 85(2), 128 of negotiable instrument acts provide statutory protection to paying banker for making payments of order cheque, bearer cheque or crossed cheque in that order. Payment of order cheque Section -85(1) of N.I.Acts 1881 provides that “Where a cheque payable to order purports to be endorsed by or on behalf of…

What is ‘better title to Holder in due course’?

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

The difference between the rights of ‘Holder’ and ‘Holder in due course’ is that the holder in due course gets a better title than the person from whom he acquired the title as he holds the instrument free from any defect of title of prior parties. For example, a stolen cheque was negotiated by the…

Payment in due course – explained

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

Sec 10 of Negotiable Instrument Acts defines ‘Payment in due course” as ‘payment in accordance with the apparent tenor of the instrument in good faith and without negligence to any person in possession thereof under circumstances which do not afford a reasonable ground for believing that he is not entitled to receive payment of the…

Holder in due Course explained

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

Section 9 of N.I. Act, define holder in due course as under. “Holder in due course means any person who for consideration became the possessor of a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque, if payable to bearer, or the payee or indorsee thereof, if payable to order, before the amount mentioned in it became…

Holder: Who is the holder of a negotiable instrument?

Negotiable Instrument ActBy Surendra NaikMay 5, 2017Leave a comment

Section 8 of N.I.Act 1881 defines ‘Holder’ as under. “The holder of a promissory note, bill of exchange or cheque means, any person entitled in his own name to the possession thereof and to receive or recover the amount due thereon from the parties thereto. Where the note, bill or cheque is lost or destroyed…

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