notarial protest
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 27 U.S. 170 - Townsley v. Sumrall · 1829Most cited · 46 citing opinions
interstate bills
It is not disputed, that by the general custom of merchants in the United States, bills of exchange drawn in one state on another state, are, if dishonoured, protested by a notary; and the production of such protest is the customary document of the dishonour. It is a practice founded in general convenience, and has been adopted for the same reasons which apply to foreign bills in the strictest sense.
How often courts cite the case defining “notarial protest”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “notarial protest” — 46 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.