Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and Other Negotiable Paper, Vol. 1 of 2: With Full References and Citations, and Also an Index and Summary of the Cases; Prepared for Use as a Text-Book in Harvard Law School Lord kenyon said, that he was of opinion that the paper offered in evidence was a bill of exchange that it was an order, by one person to another to pay money to the plaintiff or his order, which was in point of form a bill of exchange that as such it could not be given in evidence, without being legally stamped and as the only mode in which it could operate as a discharge of the plaintiff's demand was as stated by the plaintiff's counsel; that the plaintiff, in point of law, was therefore entitled to recover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.