...disposition or assignation in Great Britain, thereby charged with the duty of 1/. lax., together with any schedule, receipt, or other matter put or endorsed thereon, or annexed thereto, shall contain 2100 words or upwards, then for every entire quantity of 1080 words contained therein,...

...Commercial atrtl Haft AGREEMENT, The matter of which shall be of the value of 20?. or upwards ; whether it be only evidence of a contract, or obligatory upon the parties, from being a written instrument ; together with every schedule, receipt, or other matter or thing, put or...

...stamped." And Alderson, B., says, "The statute enacts that a stamp is necessary upon an agreement, whether the same shall be only evidence of a contract,...upon the parties from its being a written instrument. Taking the whole together, it must be implicd that a stamp is unnecessary, where the instrument shews...

...Maule, J., explained the last part of the clause above cited, as follows : " The subsequent words, ' whether the same shall be only evidence of a contract,...the parties from its being a written instrument,' are, I conceive, *used to exclude the p^, Q , -• excuse that the agreement, of which some memorandum...

...184, which imposes a duty on every agreement "where the matter thereof shall be of the value of 20Z. or upwards, whether the same shall be only evidence of a contract or obligatory upon the parties;" and the question is, whether this agreement for the discount of a bill of exchange for l00?., in consideration...

...350). Acknowledgments — Admissions. — As before seen, the words of the Stamp Act are " agreements, whether the same shall be only evidence of a contract,...obligatory upon the parties from its being a written agreement." Notwithstanding these words of the act, it is established that an acknowledgment, though...

...AGREEMENT, Under hand only, the matter of which shall be of the value of 20/. or upwards ; whether it be only evidence of a contract, or obligatory upon the parties, from being a written instrument ; together with every schedule, receipt, or other matter or thing, put or...

...any deed or instrument of any description whatever chargeable with any stamp duty together with any schedule, receipt, or other matter put or endorsed thereon or annexed thereto, shall contain 2160 words or upwards, then for every entire quantity of 1080 words contained therein,...

...1, tit. Agreement, which imposed a duty " on any agreement or minute or memorandum of any agreement, whether the same shall be only evidence of a contract, or obligatory on the parties from its being a written instrument ;" which are the words of the statute now in force....

...stamp is required ; Vollans v. Fletcher (a). [Lord Campbell CJ The language of the Stamp Act is : " whether the same shall be only evidence of a contract,...upon the parties from its being a written instrument " (£).] The evidence must be of a contract in writing, whether or not writing be by law essential...