The Merchant's Magazine: Or Trades Man's Treasury ...J.H., 1712 - 270 pages |
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Accompt currant Adminiftrators Affigns aforefaid Aleppo alfo Anno Domini Anſwer Ballance becauſe Bill of Exchange Bufhel Cafe Cafh Caſh Chap Charles Rolling chief Towns coft Coin Commiffion Commodity Creditor Cuftom Cyphers Debtor Decimal deduct Denomination Ditto divided Dividend Divifion Divifor Drams Ells English Example Executors Factor faid fame Sum Farthings fecond feveral fhall fhewed fhillings firft Flemish fold fome foregoing Foreign Fraction ftand fuch a place fundry Accounts Gallons George Higgs given Number Grofs Grograms Hundred Inches Infurance Intereft laft Ledger lefs London Meaſure Merchant moft Money muft Multiply muſt Norwich Wares Numbers given Ounces Partner payable Pence Perfon Pieces of Eight Pound pound Sterling prefent Product Profit and Lofs Proportion Proteft Quarts Quotient Reafon receiv'd reduce reft Remains Rule Scammony Shillings Ship Sterling Stock Subftraction Summ Table Tare thefe thereof theſe thofe ufually uſed Value Vulgar Fractions Weight whole Numbers Yards
Popular passages
Page 256 - ... from the beginning of the world to the day of the date of these presents.
Page 123 - ... the giving a sum of money in one place for a bill, ordering the payment of it in another place.
Page 263 - I will truly and faithfully Execute and Perform the Office and Employment of a Broker between Party and Party...
Page 233 - Notice is usually given upon the exchange in writing, and elsewhere, when the sale is to begin, 'igainst which time the goods are divided into several parcels, called lots, and papers printed of the quantity of each, and of the conditions of sale, as that none shall bid less than a certain sum more than another had bid before. During the time of the bidding a small piece, about an inch, of wax candle is burning ; and the last bidder, when the candle goes out, has the lot or parcel exposed to sale....
Page 39 - Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The Dividend is the number divided. The Divisor is the number by which the dividend is divided. The Quotient is the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend.
Page 255 - ... action, suits, bills, bonds, writings obligatory, 'debts, dues, duties, accounts, sum and sums of money, judgments, executions, extents, quarrels, controversies, trespasses, damages, and demands whatsoever, both in law or; equity...
Page 3 - ... be regarded as a unit of the 4th order. Proceeding in this way, we may place as many figures in a row as we please. When so placed, we conclude : 1st. That the same figure has different values according to the place which it occupies. 2d. That counting from the right hand towards the left, the first...
Page 223 - Confederation of the like Value paid the Drawer in another place. Bill of Lading.'] An Inftrument figned by the Mafter of a Ship, acknowledging the receipt of the Merchant's Goods, and obliging himfelf to deliver the lame in good Condition, at the place to which they are configned j of which there are ufually 3.
Page 263 - B. the elder, his heirs, executors, or adminiftrators, do and fhall well and truly pay, or caufe to be paid unto the faid GC his executors, adminiftrators, or affigns, the faid fum of , of &c.