Subject_1 BILL OF EXCHANGE.
Date: Nielson
v.
Russell
13 February 1734
Case No.No. 3.
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Bill, while not signed by the drawer, the money arrestable, and the arrester preferable to onerous indorsees, though ignorant of the drawer's not having signed it debito tempore; and the time of signing proveable pro ut de jure. Vide No. 28.
*** The Lords waved determining on this nullity, objected, viz. that the draught of the bill was not signed at the time of acceptance, in a case June 23, 1737, Tweedie against Cowie.
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