NI Act Section 83: Discharge by allowing drawee more than forty-eight hours to accept
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 · Chapter 7: Of discharge from liability on notes, bills and cheques
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¶If the holder of a bill of exchange allows the drawee more than [forty-eight] hours, exclusive of public holidays, to consider whether he will accept the same, all previous parties not consenting to such allowance are thereby discharge from liability to such holder.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 82. Discharge from liability
- 84. When cheque not duly presented and drawer damaged thereby
- 85. Cheque payable to order
- 85A. Drafts drawn by one branch of a bank on another payable to order
- 86. Parties not consenting discharged by qualified or limited acceptance
- 87. Effect of material alteration
- 88. Acceptor or indorser bound notwithstanding previous alteration
- 89. Payment of instrument on which alteration is not apparent
- 90. Extinguishment of rights of action on bill in acceptor's hands