107 *mercantile Law Amendment
Author | Ralph Hone |
Pages | #3 |
[CH.107.
CHAPTER 107.
MERCANTILE LAW AMENDMENT.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS * ** AFFECTING TRADE AND COMMERCE.
[29th July 1856.] [This Act may be cited as The Mercantile Law Amendment Act.] * * * * * * 3. No special Promise to be made by any Person after the passing of this Act to answer for the Debt, Default, or Miscarriage of another Person, being in Writing, and signed by the Party to be charged therewith or some other Person by him thereunto lawfully authorized, shall be deemed invalid to support an Action, Suit, or other Proceeding to charge the Person by whom such Promise shall have been made, by reason only that the Consideration for such Promise does not appear in Writing, or by necessary Inference from a written Document.
19 & 20 Vict. c.
97 extended by 23 of 1860.
Short title.
Consideration for Guarantee need not appear by Writing, * * * *, * 5. Every Person who, being Surety for the Debt or Duty of another, or being liable with another for any Debt or Duty, shall pay such Debt or perform such Duty, shall be entitled to have assigned to him, or to a Trustee for him, every Judgment, Specialty, or other Security which shall be held by the Creditor in respect of such Debt or Duty, whether such Judgment, Specialty, or other Security shall or shall not be deemed at Law to have been satisfied by the Payment of the Debt or Performance of the Duty, and such Person shall be entitled to stand in the Place of the Creditor, and to use all the Remedies, and, if need be, and upon a proper Indemnity, to use the Name of the Creditor, in any Action -or other Proceeding, at Law ýor in Equity, in order to obtain from the principal Debtor, or any CoSurety, Co-Contractor, or Co-Debtor, as the Case may be, Indemnification for the Advances made and Loss sustained by the Person who shall have so paid such A Surety who discharges the Liability to be entitled to Assignment of all Securities held by the Creditor.
Limitation of Actions for 'Merchants' Accounts.' Absence beyond Seas or Imprisonment of a Creditor not to be a disability.
Ch. 69.
Ch. 148.
Ch. 84.
Debt or performed such Duty, and such Payment or Performance so made by such Surety shall not be pleadable in bar of any such Action or other Proceeding by him:
Provided always that no Co-Surety, Co-Contractor, or Co-Debtor shall be entitled to recover from any other Co-Surety, Co-Contractor, or Co-Debtor, by the Means aforesaid, more than the just Proportion to which, as between those Parties themselves...
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- Title IX - Mercantile Law
- 93 Patent
- 94 Trade Marks
- 95 *copyright
- 96 Banks
- 97 Customs Regulations
- 98 Customs Formalities Regulations
- 99 Import Control Regulations
- 100 Export Control Regulations
- 101 Carriage Of Goods By Sea
- 102 *bills Of Lading
- 103 Marine Insurance
- 104 Insurance Contracts
- 105 Mercantile Agents
- 106 Agricultural Merchants Registration
- 107 *mercantile Law Amendment
- 108 *bills Of Exchange
- 109 Bills Of Exchange (bahamas)
- 110 Sale Of Goods
- 111 Weights And Measures
- 112 Money Lending
- 113 Rate Of Interest
- 114 Business Names (use Of Royal Titles)
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