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Negotiable Instruments Act 1881

 

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PREAMBLE Preamble CaseLaw
1 Short title CaseLaw
2 Repeal of enactments  
3 Interpretation-clause CaseLaw
4 Promissory note CaseLaw
5 Bill of exchange CaseLaw
6 Cheque CaseLaw
7 Drawer, drawee, acceptor, acceptor for honour CaseLaw
8 Holder CaseLaw
9 Holder in due course CaseLaw
10 Payment in due course CaseLaw
11 Inland instruments  
12 Foreign instrument CaseLaw
13 Negotiable instrument CaseLaw
14 Negotiation  
15 Endorsement  
16 Endorsement “in blank” and in “full”  
17 Ambiguous instrument CaseLaw
18 Where amount is sated differently in figures and words CaseLaw
19 Instrument payable on demand CaseLaw
20 Inchoate stamped instrument CaseLaw
21 “at sight” “on presentment” “after sight CaseLaw
21-A When note or bill payable on demand is overdue
21-B A note or bill payable at a determinable future time
21-C Anti-dating and post-dating
22 Maturity; days of grace CaseLaw
23 Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many months after date or sight  
24 Calculating maturity of bill or note payable so many days after date or sight  
25 When day of maturity is a holiday  
26 Capacity to make, etc., promissory notes, etc. CaseLaw
27 Agency
27-A Authority of partners
27-B Forged or unauthorised signature
28 Liability of agent signing CaseLaw
28-A Transfer or by delivery and transferee
29 Liability of legal representative signing CaseLaw
29-A Signature essential to liability
29-B Forget or unauthorised signature
29-C Stranger signing instrument presumed to be indorser
30 Liability of drawer CaseLaw
31 Liability of drawer CaseLaw
32 Liability of maker of note and acceptor of bill CaseLaw
33 Only drawee can be acceptor except in need or for honour  
34 Acceptance by several drawees not partners  
35 Liability of indorser CaseLaw
36 Liability of prior parties to holder in due course CaseLaw
37 Maker, drawer and acceptor principals CaseLaw
38 Prior party a principal in respect of each subsequent party CaseLaw
38-A Liability of accommodation party and position of accommodation party
39 Suretyship CaseLaw
40 Discharge of indorser liability  
41 Acceptor bound although endorsement forged  
42 Acceptance of bill drawn in fictitious name  
43 Negotiable instrument made etc., without consideration CaseLaw
44 Partial absence or failure of money consideration  
45 Partial failure of consideration not consisting of money  
45-A Holders right to duplicate of lost bill  
46 Delivery CaseLaw
47 Negotiation by delivery  
48 Negotiation by endorsement CaseLaw
49 Conversion of endorsement in blank into endorsement in full  
50 Effect of endorsement CaseLaw
51 Who may negotiate CaseLaw
52 Indorser who excludes his own liability or makes it conditional  
53 Holder claiming through holder in due course CaseLaw
53-A Rights of holder in due course
54 Instrument indorsed in bland  
55 Conversion of endorsement in blank into endorsement  
56 Requisites of endorsement CaseLaw
57 Legal representative cannot be delivery only negotiate instrument indorsed by deceased  
57-A Negotiation of instrument of party already liable thereon  
57-B Rights of holder  
58 Defective title CaseLaw
59 Instrument acquired after dishonour or when overdue  
60 Instrument negotiable till payment or satisfaction CaseLaw
61 Presentment for acceptance CaseLaw
62 Presentment of promissory note for sight CaseLaw
63 Drawee’s time for deliberation CaseLaw
64 Presentment for payment CaseLaw
65 Hours for presentment  
66 Presentment for payment of instrument payable after date or sight  
67 Presentment to payment of promissory not payable by instruments CaseLaw
68 Presentment for payment of instrument payable at specified place and not elsewhere CaseLaw
69 Instrument payable at specified place CaseLaw
70 Presentment where no exclusive place specified CaseLaw
71 Presentment when make, etc., has no known place of business or residence  
71-A What constitutes valid presentment and mode of presentment  
72 Presentment of cheque to charge drawee CaseLaw
73 Presentment of cheque to charge any other person CaseLaw
74 Presentment of instrument payable on demand  
75 Presentment by or to agent, representative of decreased or assignee of insolvent  
75-A Excuse for delay in presentment for acceptance or payment  
76 When presentment unnecessary CaseLaw
77 Liability of banker for negligently dealing with bill presented for payment  
78 To when payment should be made CaseLaw
79 Interest when rate specified or not specified CaseLaw
80 Interest when no rate specified CaseLaw
81 Delivery of instrument on payment, or indemnity in case of loss  
82 Discharge from liability by cancellation CaseLaw
83 Discharge by allowing drawee more than forty-eight hours to accept  
84 When cheque not duly presented and drawer damaged thereby CaseLaw
85 Cheque payable to order  
85-A Drafts drawn by one branch of a bank on another payable to order  
86 Parties not consenting discharged and qualified or limited acceptance CaseLaw
87 Effect of material alteration CaseLaw
88 Acceptor or indorser bound not withstanding previous alteration  
89 Payment of instrument on which alteration is not apparent CaseLaw
90 Extinguishment of right of action o bill in acceptor’s hands  
91 Dishonour by non-acceptance CaseLaw
92 Dishonour by non-payment CaseLaw
93 By and to whom notice should be given CaseLaw
94 Mode in which notice may be given  
95 Party receiving must transmit notice of dishonour  
96 Agent for presentment  
97 When party to whom notice given is dean  
98 When notice of dishonour is unnecessary CaseLaw
99 Noting
100 Protest
101 Contents of protest  
102 Notice of protest  
103 Protest for non-payment after dishonour by non-acceptance CaseLaw
104 Protest of foreign bills CaseLaw
104-A When noting equivalent to protest
105 Reasonable time  
106 Reasonable time of giving notice of dishonour  
107 Reasonable time for transmitting such notice  
108 Acceptance for honour  
109 How acceptance for honour must be made  
110 Acceptance not specifying for whose honour it is made CaseLaw
111 Liability of acceptor for honour  
112 When acceptor for honour may be charged  
112-A Special provisions relating cheques  
113 Payment for honour  
114 Right of payer for honour CaseLaw
115 Drawee in case of need  
116 Acceptance and payment without protest  
117 Rules as to compensation CaseLaw
118 Presumption as to negotiable instrument of consideration CaseLaw
119 Presumption on proof of protest CaseLaw
120 Estoppel against denying original validity of instrument CaseLaw
121 Estoppel against denying capacity of payee to indorse CaseLaw
122 Estoppel against denying signature or capacity of proper party CaseLaw
122-A Revocation of bankers authority
123 Cheque crossed generally CaseLaw
123-A Cheque crossed account payee
124 Cheque crossed specially CaseLaw
125 Crossing after issue  
125-A Crossing a material part of a cheque  
126 Payment of cheque crossed generally CaseLaw
127 Payment of cheque crossed specially more than once  
128 Payment in due course of crossed cheque  
129 Payment of crossed cheque out of the course CaseLaw
130 Cheque bearing “no negotiable” CaseLaw
131 Non-liability of banker receiving payment of cheque CaseLaw
131-A Application of chapter to drafts
131-B Protection to banker crediting cheque crossed account payee
131-C Cheque not operating as assignment of funds
131-D Special provisions relating to bill of exchange
131-E In whose favour a bill may be drawn
131-F When presentment for acceptance in necessary
131-G When presentment excused
131-H Holders right of recourse against drawer and indorser
131-I Holder may refuse qualified acceptance
132 Set of bills  
133 Holder of first acquired part entitled to all CaseLaw
134 Law governing liability of parties of a foreign instrument CaseLaw
135 Omitted
136 Instrument made, etc., outside Pakistan etc., but is accordance with their law  
137 Presumption as to foreign law  
138 Power to appoint notaries public CaseLaw
139 Power to make rules for notaries public  
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