Mera Samvidhaan All of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Chapter XIII · Special Rules of Evidence

121Estoppel against denying capacity of payee to indorse.

Section 121 · Chapter XIII · page 25 of the Act

No maker of a promissory note and no acceptor of a bill of exchange 2[payable to order] shall, in a suit thereon by a holder in due course, be permitted to deny the payee's capacity, at the date of the note or bill, to indorse the same.

2 Subs. by Act 8 of 1919, s. 5, for “payable to, or to the order- of, a specified person”.

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