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Bills of Exchange.

()the return of a dishonoured bill to the drawer or an indorser is, in point of form, deemed a suffi- cient notice of dishonour;

(g) a written notice need not be signed, and an insuffi- cient written notice may be supplemented and validated by verbal communication. A misdescrip- tion of the bill shall not vitiate the notice unless the party to whom the notice is given is in fact misled thereby;

(h) where the notice is required to be given to any person, it may be given either to the party him- self or to his agent in that behalf;

(i) where the drawer or indorser is dead, and the party giving notice knows it, the notice must be given to a personal representative, if such there be, and, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, he can be found;

(1) where the drawer or indorser is bankrupt, the notice may be given either to the party himself or to his trustee or assignee ;

(k) where there are two or more drawers or indorsers who are not partners, the notice must be given to each of them, unless one of them has authority to receive such notice for the others;

(1) the notice may be given as soon as the bill is dishonoured and must be given within a reason- able time thereafter. In the absence of special circumstances, notice is not deemed to have been given within a reasonable time, unless--

(i) where the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in the same place, the notice is given or sent off in time to reach the latter on the day after the dishonour of the bill;

(ii) where the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in different places, the notice is sent off on the day after the dishonour of the bili, if there is a post at a convenient hour on that day, and, if there is no such post on that day, then by the next post thereafter;

(m) where a bill when dishonoured is in the hands of an agent, he may either himself give notice to the parties liable on the bill or he may give notice to

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