Legal Definition and Related Resources of Honour

(1) A seignory in capite of which several inferior lordships or manors depend ; and the land or district included therein. An Honour cannot be created since the statute Quia Emptores, except by Act of Parliament. (2) To honour a bill of exchange is to pay it, ‘or to accept it, as may be due

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Honour in Historical Law

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English Legal System: Acceptance For Honour

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Acceptance For Honour : (acceptance supra protest, acceptance for honour)

A form of *acceptance of a bill of exchange to save the good name of the drawer or an endorser. If a bill of exchange has been either the subject of a *protest for dishonour by nonacceptance or protested for better security, and it is not overdue, any person who is not already liable on the bill may. with the consent of the holder. accept the bill supra protest. Such an acceptance must be written on the bill. indicate that it is an acceptance for honour, and be signed. The acceptor for honour engages that he will pay the bill on due presentment if it is not paid by the drawee, provided that it has been duly presented for payment and protested for nonpayment and that he receives notice of these facts. He is liable to the holder and to all parties to the bill subsequent to the party for whose honour he accepted.