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1870 ORDINANCE No. 9 or 1885.


Bills of Exchange.


(7.) A written notice need not be signed, and an insufficient
written notice may be supplemented and validated by
verbal communication. A misdescription of the bill
shall not vitiate the notice unless the party to whom
the notice is given is in fact misled thereby.

(8. ) Where notice of dishonour is required to be given to any
person, it may be given either to the party himself, or
to his agent in that behalf.

(9. ) 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 .

( 10. ) Where the drawer or indorser is bankrupt, notice may be
given either to the party himself or to the trustee or

assignee.

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

(12. ) The notice may be given as soon as the bill is dishonoured

and must be given within a reasonable time thereafter.

In the absence of special circumstances notice is not deemed to
have been given within a reasonable time, unless

(a. ) 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.

(b. ) 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 bill , if
there be a post at a convenient hour on that day,
and if there be no such post on that day then by
the next post thereafter.

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