BAILII is celebrating 24 years of free online access to the law! Would you
consider making a contribution?
No donation is too small. If every visitor before 31 December gives just £5, it
will have a significant impact on BAILII's ability to continue providing free
access to the law.
Thank you very much for your support!
The subscription of the drawer, an essential requisite.
Click here to view a pdf copy of this documet : PDF Copy
A bill was found null, being neither signed by the alleged drawer, nor of his hand-writing; which was not upon the act of Parliament regarding blank writs; because the alleged drawer's name was on the body of the bill; but, upon this footing, that a bill is a mutual contract; an order, or mandate, by the one party, and an acceptance of the order, or mandate, by the other, which binds the parties mutually, according to the nature of the mandate: And, upon the common principle of contracts, both parties must be bound, or neither; and so there can be no obligation, unless the consent of the drawer be interposed, as well as of the acceptor. See This case, voce Mutual Contract.
