Act Number: 26

Act Name: The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Year: 1881

Enactment Date: 1881-12-09

Long Title: An Act to define and amend the law relating to Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange and Cheques.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Financial Services

Section 83: Discharge by allowing drawee more than forty-eight hours to accept.
    If the holder of a bill of exchange allows the drawee more than 1[forty-eight] hours, exclusive of public holidays, to consider whether he will accept the same, all previous parties not consenting to such allowance are thereby discharge from liability to such holder.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 12 of 1921, s. 2, for twenty-four.
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