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Conditions precedent to the bringing of an action on a bill of exchange

Defences for granting leave to defend an action on a bill of exchange

Dishonour of a bill

3 subsidiary principles

Effect of a customer's acceptance of a bill of exchange payable at his bank

Effect of negotiating a bill of exchange which carried the endorsement "without recourse"

Effect of signing or endorsing a bill of exchange

Liability of an indorser of a bill of exchange to the holder and/or indorsee

Meaning of a bill of exchange

On whom lies the burden of proving want of consideration for a bill of exchange

Position of the law on signature on bills of exchange

Position of the law on the parties with liability under a bill of exchange

Position of the law where the indoser is the person to whom the bill is presented for payment

Promissory Notes

10 subsidiary principles

The law applicable to bills of exchange in Nigeria

What constitutes a waiver under a bill of exchange

Whether a bank draft is a bill of exchange

Whether a bill of exchange is an independent and distinct contract from the agreement upon which the bill was founded

Whether a bill of exchange is regarded as cash

Whether a claim upon a cheque can be maintained where it has not been presented

Whether a party in breach can be aided by the exclusion clause "without recourse"

Whether a party who negotiates a bill of exchange waives his right to complain as to the manner the bill was drawn

Whether consideration is presumed in an action brought under the Bills of Exchange Act

Whether cross-claims or defences are allowed to thwart or delay an action founded on bills of exchange

Whether fraud operates against a third party in a bill of exchange transaction

Whether the holder of a bill of exchange can orally waive or renounce his right under the bill

Whether the original payee of a bill of exchange can contend that he was a holder in due course

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