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Definition of Foreign bill
1. Noun. A bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreign Bill
Literary usage of Foreign bill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"Hackley, 5 John. 375. If a drawer and drawee reside In Kentucky and the bill be
payable In New Orleans, 1л.. It Is a foreign bill ; though If It be drawn In ..."
2. A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by Sir John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood (1883)
"193 What might hace amounted to an acceptance of foreign bill . 193 A Promise to
pay . . . 193 To ic/ium it may be made . . 194 Ii irrevocable . . . .194 ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"Hence a bill drawn in one State upon a person residing or doing business in
another has heen invariably held to be a foreign bill of exchange. Buchner vs. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... soon becomes so large that the exporter imagines that he can make a fair profit
out of the premium on his foreign bill alone, though there may not be a ..."
5. A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes by John Barnard Byles (1853)
"When an action is brought on a foreign bill, against a drawer or indorser, the
declaration ought to disclose that it is a foreign bill. And if it do not, ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"(a) 7 East, 359, and vide another case on a foreign bill of exchange referred to by
... 993, by Holt, CJ, a protest on a foreign bill is part of the custom ..."
7. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1863)
"If a foreign bill be not accepted, or be not paid at maturity, it should at once be
... The holder of a foreign bill, after protest for non-payment, ..."
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