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1778. 4 Sittings. [Saturday] Nov. 21.
were paid for, by a Bill of Exchange for the amount, and a Receipt for the Price of the Goods given, according to the usual Practice here, by Captain Reed writing, his name only, on the Bill of Parcels for these Goods, and it was also insisted that the Plaintiff had taken the whole hazard of the Bill on himself, by Laches in receiving the Bill, and also by having given Credit to Ogden the acceptor by giving him time to pay after the day for payment named in the Bill, four or five days at a time, twice or thrice, and by delaying two or three Months at least to make the Protest after the Refusal to pay. And by having pledged this Bill of Exchange for some money which Huggins owed on which the Man to whom he had pledged it, had received interest for the delay of payment. It was argued that this mode of giving a Receipt by only signing the name of the seller to the bill of Parcels, resembled a Receipt for the money due when the Bill of Exchange should be paid, and not an absolute receipt: But the Court were of Opinion
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