Professional Documents
Culture Documents
For example:
• Pay A
• Pay A or order
• Pay to the order of A
Payable to bearer: ‘payable to bearer’ means ‘pay any person
who bears it.’
For example:
• Bearer check
• Pay A, B or bearer
CHARACTERISTICS OF NEGOTIABLE
INSTRUMENT
• Writing and signature
• Money
• Freely transferable
• Title of Holder free from all Defects
• Notice
• Presumptions
• special procedure
• Popularity
• Evidence
TYPE OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT
• Instrument negotiable by statue: The negotiable
Instrument act mentions only three kind of Negotiable
instrument (section 13).
• These are:
1. Bills of exchange.
2. Promissory notes .
3. Cheques.
PARTIES OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT