Several sovereigns, among others Elizabeth of England, had recognized agents in that city, equivalent to consuls of the present times; and loans of immense amount were frequently negotiated by them with wealthy merchants, who furnished them, not in negotiable bills or for unredeemable debentures, but in solid gold, and on a simple acknowledgment.

The Admiralty has begun to see its way to reduce the danger to proportions, normal and negotiable, like other dangers.

If in good faith, in the regular course of business, a person comes into possession of commercial paper, negotiable in form, not yet mature, and for which he has given a reasonable consideration, he can collect on it.

Negotiable paper with the words "or bearer" is transferable by delivery alone.

If the note is negotiable in form, he is responsible to the innocent purchaser of it.

Write a negotiable note transferable without indorsement.

A man has some non-negotiable notes; if he dies can his heir collect them?

When does a note cease to be negotiable?

Are drafts negotiable before acceptance?

Are checks negotiable?

Who are not responsible to the holder of a negotiable paper unless notified?

There is no production of Nature that I know of less negotiable than a coconut as the tree presents it.

In this District, there are thousands of human beings divested of the rights of humanity, and subjected to a negotiable despotism; and Congress is the only power that can extend the shield of law to protect them from cruelty and abuse; and that shield, it is now resolved, shall not be extended in any way, or to any extent!

A treatise on the law of negotiable instruments.

Walter R. Agard (A); 20Aug64; R343504. AIGLER, RALPH W. Cases on the law of negotiable paper and banking.

Germaine Beaumont (A); 4Nov69; R472352. BAUER, RALPH S. Negotiable instruments.

Not negotiable.

Coming to statutes which merely facilitate business as it now exists, by far the most important movement has been the successful work of the State Commissioners on Uniformity of Law in getting their negotiable instrument act passed in nearly all the States, and in several already their uniform law statute on sales, only recommended in 1907.

Still more important as a change in previously existing law has been the increasing tendency to make documents other than bills and notes negotiable.

This is what we mean by negotiable; and it is essential that the precise meaning of the word should be understood if we are to understand the importance of this legislation.

Even most business men have a very vague understanding of the difference between negotiable and assignable.

Substantially all property and choses in action are assignable, except personal contracts; and in ordinary business many of them are assumed to be negotiable, such as bills of lading, warehouse receipts, trust receipts, or certificates of stock.

Now it is obvious that it is for the enormous convenience of business to have business documents made negotiable.

It is more than usual to loan money upon warehouse receipts, bills of lading, stock certificates or trust receipts of all descriptions, regardless of the question whether the law of the State makes them negotiable.

Hence the very great tendency to make such instruments negotiable by statute; and I find many such laws, beginning in 1893 in North Carolina, as to warehouse receipts, while the Massachusetts statute concerning stock dates from 1884.