 | 1888 - 428 sider
...Econ. Book III. c. XII., s. 6. J Pol. Econ. Book I. c. XXI., s. 10. for a bank-note : " They . . . are treated as money, as cash, in the ordinary course...transaction of business, by the general consent of mankind. . . . They are as much money as guineas themselves are, or any other current coin that is used in common... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - 1896 - 530 sider
...since the leading case of Miller v. Race? decided in 1791, where Lord Mansfield says that bank notes " are treated as money, as cash, in the ordinary course and transaction of business by ' Crouch T. Crtdit Fancier (1873), LE 8 QB 873, at p. 381, citing the notes to MiUtr v. Race, 1 Smith's... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - 1902 - 552 sider
...what they did not resemble. " They are not goods," he said, " not securities, nor documents for debt nor are so esteemed ; but are treated as money, as...transaction of business, by the general consent of mankind ;" " the course of trade creates a property in the assignee or bearer," and they can not be recovered... | |
 | John Warwick Daniel, Charles Alexander Douglass - 1903 - 1034 sider
...MONEY. § 1672. In an early case, it was said by Lord Mansfield, that hank notes " are not goods, nor securities, nor documents for debts, nor are so esteemed,...ordinary course and transaction of business — by the genoral consent of mankind, which gives them the credit and currency of money to all intents and purposes.... | |
 | John Cadwalader - 1907 - 664 sider
...much money as the current coin used in common payments. But he had, in the context, said that they are treated as money, as cash, in the ordinary course and transaction of business, by the general sense of mankind which gives then the credit and currency of money to all intents and purposes. He... | |
 | 1914 - 800 sider
...no difficulty in holding that the property in such notes passed by delivery on the ground that they "are treated as money, as cash. in the ordinary course and transaction of business, by the general (5) AT Carter. 17 LQR, at p. 240; cf. TE Scrutton, Roman Law in the Law Merchant, extract from The... | |
 | Edgar Noble Durfee - 1915 - 554 sider
...what they did not resemble. "They are not goods," he said, "not securities, nor documents for debt, nor are so esteemed; but are treated as money, as...transaction of business, by the general consent of mankind;" "the course of trade creates a property in the assignee or bearer," and they cannot be recovered "after... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - 1917 - 792 sider
...what they did not resemble. "They are not goods," he said, "not securities, nor documents for debt nor are so esteemed; but are treated as money, as...transaction of business, by the general consent of mankind;" "the course of trade creates a property in the assignee or bearer," and they can not be recovered "after... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - 1917 - 804 sider
...what they did not resemble. " They are not goods," he said, "not securities, nor documents for debt nor are so esteemed; but are treated as money, as...transaction of business, by the general consent of mankind;" "the course of trade creates a property in the assignee or bearer," and they can not be recovered "after... | |
 | 1919 - 1102 sider
...debts. Now they are not goods or securities, nor are they so esteemed, but nre trented as money or cash in the ordinary course and transaction of business...consent of mankind, * Which gives them the credit nnd currency of money in all intents and purposes. * * * The bank note is constantly and universally,... | |
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But the whole i'allacy of the argument turns upon comparing bank notes to what they do not resemble, arid what they ought not to be compared to, riz. to goods, or to securities, or documents for debts. Xoivthry are not goods, not securities, nor documents... 
