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A TKEATISE ON THE LAW
OF
NEGOTIABLE mSTRUMENTS,
INCLUDING
BILLS OF EXCHANGE; PROMISSORY NOTES; NEGOTIABLE BONDS
AND COUPONS; CHECKS; BANK NOTES; CERTIFICATES OF
DEPOSIT; CERTIFICATES OF STOCK; BILLS OF CREDIT;
BILLS OF LADING; GUARANTIES; LETTERS OF
CREDIT; AND CIRCULAR NOTES.
By JOHN W. DANIEL,
OF THE LYNCHBURG <VA.) BAR.
" Out of the old fieldes,
Cometh al this new come." -- Chauceh.
"Non erit alia lex Romje, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et apud oranes gentoB, ct omni tempore, una eademque lex obtinebit." -- Cicero.
m TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
THIRD EDITION.
NEW YOKE:
BAKER, VOORHIS & CO., PUBLISHERS.
Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, bj
JOHN W. DANIEL,
In the ofiSce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington,
Cc^xyright by JOHN W. Daniel, 1879. Copyright by John W. Daniel, i88a.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOL. IL
BOOK. lY.
PEOTEST AND NOTICE; AND EXCUSES FOR WANT OF PRESENTMENT, PROTEST, AND
NOTICE.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
PAGB
The Protest of Bills and Notes, i
Section I. The nature and necessity of protest,..…