A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... circulation of such bills or drafts led to the institution of banks for their regular issue . By a bank of this description , or a bank of circulation , is meant an establishment founded by one or more individuals , known or MONEY . 31.
... circulation of such bills or drafts led to the institution of banks for their regular issue . By a bank of this description , or a bank of circulation , is meant an establishment founded by one or more individuals , known or MONEY . 31.
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... issue of notes , fall into discredit , its notes must obviously cease to circulate . Unless when guaranteed by government , or made legal tender , no one ever takes promissory notes , except on the supposition that they will be paid ...
... issue of notes , fall into discredit , its notes must obviously cease to circulate . Unless when guaranteed by government , or made legal tender , no one ever takes promissory notes , except on the supposition that they will be paid ...
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... issue of promissory notes payable on demand has been established in or near London . In the provinces , however , numerous private banks of issue and deposit have always existed . Since the close of the American war , their numbers have ...
... issue of promissory notes payable on demand has been established in or near London . In the provinces , however , numerous private banks of issue and deposit have always existed . Since the close of the American war , their numbers have ...
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... issues . In con- sequence the currency became redundant ; and this having occasioned a heavy drain for gold on the Bank of England , the latter was , in the end , obliged to contract her issues . The country banks , whose engage- ments ...
... issues . In con- sequence the currency became redundant ; and this having occasioned a heavy drain for gold on the Bank of England , the latter was , in the end , obliged to contract her issues . The country banks , whose engage- ments ...
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... issue of notes for less than 57. , the cir- culation of which began in 1797 , was also forbidden . The last measure shut up , no doubt , one of the easiest channels through which the inferior order of country bankers got their paper ...
... issue of notes for less than 57. , the cir- culation of which began in 1797 , was also forbidden . The last measure shut up , no doubt , one of the easiest channels through which the inferior order of country bankers got their paper ...
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A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2 John Ramsay McCulloch Visualização integral - 1854 |
A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2 John Ramsay McCulloch Visualização integral - 1854 |
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Página 481 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
Página 729 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 93 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Página 3 - ... be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 143 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Página 93 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Página 443 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página 213 - That James VII, being a professed papist , did assume the royal power, and acted as king , without ever taking the oath required by law, and had by the advice of evil and wicked counsellors , . invaded the fundamental constitution of the kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power...
Página 261 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Página 643 - ... by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when they have consumed it, then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers...