Bills of Exchange Act, 1964 (Act No. 34 of 1964)

Chapter I

Liabilities of parties

52. Liability of acceptor

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The acceptor of a bill, by accepting it—

(a)engages that he will pay it according to the tenor of his acceptance;
(b)is precluded from denying to a holder in due course—
(i)the existence of the drawer, the genuineness of his signature, and his capacity and authority to draw the bill;
(ii)in the case of a bill payable to drawer's order, the then capacity of the drawer to indorse, but not the genuineness or the validity of his indorsement;
(iii)in the case of a bill payable to the order of a third person, the existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse, but not the genuineness or the validity of his indorsement.