 | Charles Bosanquet - 1810 - 304 sider
...proportion, with reference to gold ; but gold itself would still remain, just as much as before, thefaed measure of the rising and falling value of all other...commodity, except in reference to the general increase or diminiition of the value of such commodity in gold, and in the precise proportion of that increase... | |
 | John Bristed - 1811 - 556 sider
...measure of that depreciation. " A Bank-note is not a commodity; it is an engagement for the payment of a specified quantity of money. It cannot vary its value...Gold, therefore, is the test by which the value of bank-notes must be tried ; and if a onepound note, being an engagement to pay 5 dwts. 3 grs. of gold,... | |
 | John Bristed - 1811 - 554 sider
...measure of that depreciation. " A Bank-note is not a commodity ; it is an engagement for the payment of a specified quantity of money. It cannot vary its value...Gold, therefore, is the test by which the value of bank-notes must be tried ; and if a onepound note, being an engagement to pay 5 dwts. 3 grs. of gold,... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 626 sider
...measure of the rising and falling value of all other commodities, in reference to each other. A bank-note is not a commodity : it is only an engagement for...Gold, therefore, is the test by which the value of bank-notes must be tried ; and if a one-pound note, being an engagement to pay 5 dwts. 3 grs. of gold,... | |
 | William Huskisson - 1831 - 632 sider
...measure of the rising and falling value of all other commodities, in reference to each other. A bank-note is not a commodity: it is only an engagement for the...money. It cannot vary its value in exchange for any conv modity, except in reference to the general increase or diminution of the value of such commodity... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1840 - 918 sider
...weight of gold never can be worth a pound 1810' and a quarter of gold. A bank-note, on the other hand, is not a commodity — it is only an engagement for...exchange for any commodity, except in reference to the increase or diminution of such commodity in gold. Gold, therefore, is the test by which the value of... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 sider
...never can be worth a pound and aquarter of gold. A bank-note, on the other hand, isnotacommodify — it is only an engagement for the payment of a certain...exchange for any commodity, except in reference to the increase or diminution of such commodity in gold. Gold, therefore, is the test by which the value of... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 1252 sider
...pound weight of gold never can be worth a pound and a quarter of gold. A bank-note, on the other Land, is not a commodity — it is only an engagement for...specified quantity of money. It cannot vary its value in the exchange for any commodity, except in reference to the increase or diminution of such commodity... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1848 - 556 sider
...and falling value of all other commodities, in reference to each other." Again he says : " A banknote is not a commodity ; it is only an engagement for the payment of a certain specific quantity of money." Lord King said ; " It may be assumed, on probable grounds, that the bullion... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 410 sider
...beworth a pound and a quarter of gold.. A bank-note, on the other hand, is not 1810.] [CHAP. LXIV. a commodity — it is only an engagement for the payment...specified quantity of money. It cannot vary its value in the exchange for any commodity, except in reference to the increase or diminution of such commodity... | |
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A bank-note is not a commodity : it is only an engagement for the payment of a certain specified quantity of money. It cannot vary its value in exchange for any commodity, except in reference to the general increase or diminution of the value of such... 