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Address to drawee.
Certainty required as to payee.
What bills are negotiable.
Sum payable.
No. 3.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1885.
contract, the holder may treat the instrument, at his option, either as a bill of exchange or as a promissory note.
6.--(1.) The drawee must be named or otherwise indicated in a bill with reasonable certainty.
(2.) A bill may be addressed to two or more drawees, whether they are partners or not, but an order addressed to two drawees in the alternative, or to two or more drawees in succession, is not a bill of exchange.
7.—(1.) Where a bill is not payable to bearer, the payee must be named or otherwise indicated therein with reasonable certainty.
(2.) A bill may be made payable to two or more payees jointly, or it may be made payable in the alternative to one of two or one or some of several payees. A bill may also be made payable to the holder of an office for the time being.
(3.) Where the payee is a fictitious or non-existing person, the bill may be treated as payable to bearer.
8.--(1.) Where a bill contains words prohibiting transfer, or indicating an intention that it should not be transferable, it is valid as between the parties thereto, but is not negotiable.
(2.) A negotiable bill may be payable either to order or to bearer.
(3.) A bill is payable to bearer which is expressed to be so payable, or on which the only or last indorsement is an indorsement in blank.
(4.) A bill is payable to order which is expressed to be so payable, or which is expressed to be payable to a particular person, and does not contain words prohibiting transfer or indicating an intention that it should not be transferable.
(5.) Where a bill, either originally or by indorsement, is expressed to be payable to the order of a specified person, and not to him or his order, it is nevertheless payable to him or his order at his option.
9.-(1.) The sum payable by a bill is a sum certain within the meaning of this Ordinance, although it is required to be paid--
(a.) with interest;
(b.) by stated instalments;
(c.) by stated instalments, with a provision that, upon default in payment of any instalment, the whole shall become due;
(d) according to an indicated rate of exchange or according to a rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill.
(2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures, and there is a discrepancy between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable.
(3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise provides, interest runs from the date of the bill.
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Address to drawee.
Certainty required as to payee.
What bills. are negoti-
able.
Sum payable.
No. 3.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1885.
contract, the holder may treat the instrument, at his option, either as a bill of exchange or as a promissory note.
6.--(1.) The drawee must be named or otherwise indicated in a bill with reasonable certainty.
(2.) A bill may be addressed to two or more drawees, whether they are partners or not, but an order addressed to two drawees in the alter- native, or to two or more drawees in succession, is not a bill of exchange,
7.—(1.) Where a bill is not payable to bearer, the payee must be named or otherwise indicated therein with reasonable certainty.
(2.) A bill may be made payable to two or more payees jointly, or it may be made payable in the alternative to one of two or one or some of several payees. A bill may also be made payable to the holder of an office for the time being.
(3.) Where the payee is a fictitious or non-existing person, the bill may be treated as payable to bearer.
8.--(1.) Where a bill contains words prohibiting transfer, or indicat- ing an intention that it should not be transferable, it is valid as between the parties thereto, but is not negotiable.
(2.) A negotiable bill may be payable either to order or to bearer. (3.) A bill is payable to bearer which is expressed to be so payable, or on which the only or last indorsement is an indorsement in blank.
(4.) A bill is payable to order which is expressed to be so payable, or which is expressed to be payable to a particular person, and does not contain words prohibiting transfer or indicating an intention that it should not be transferable.
(5.) Where a bill, either originally or by indorsement, is expressed to be payable to the order of a specified person, and not to him or his order, it is nevertheless payable to him or his order at his option.
9.-(1.) The sum payable by a bill is a sum certain within the mean- ing of this Ordinance, although it is required to be paid--
(a.) with interest;
(b.) by stated instalments;
(c.) by stated instalments, with a provision that, upon default in
payment of any instalment, the whole shall become due; (d) according to an indicated rate of exchange or according to a
rate of exchange to be ascertained as directed by the bill. (2.) Where the sum payable is expressed in words and also in figures, and there is a discrepancy between the two, the sum denoted by the words is the amount payable.
(3.) Where a bill is expressed to be payable with interest, unless the instrument otherwise, provides, interest runs from the date of the bill,
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