Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dorse , 2. - noun A pannier or basket. Also dorsel, dosser.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
dosser .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
dosser (a basket).
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Examples
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The Direction G'entrale referred to a formal letter of the solicitors of the estate of Hugh Fraser Johnstone, deceased, totally repudiating the four unaccepted drafts of five thousand pounds sterling each, and legally notifying the Direction of an intended suit to recover from the payee and the in-dorser, the first draft for five thousand pounds paid before Executor Andrew Fraser had filed his objections with Messrs. Glyn, Carr & Glyn.
A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874
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This doctrine is particularly insisted on in the case of an en - dorser of the note of a deceased purchaser, at a resale; in which case a second resale has been made, and a considerable de - ficiency has in consequence happened.
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OP NOTES, 93 risk upon himself, and shall never resort to the en - dorser.
Reports and dissertations, in two parts ... : with an appendix, containing forms of special pleadings in several cases, forms of recognizances, of justices records and of warrants of commitment Vermont. Supreme Court 1793
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An accommodation party is one who has signed the instrument as maker, drawer, acceptor, or in - dorser, without receiving vahie therefor, and for the pur - pose of lending his name to some other person.
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The drawer, by drawing the instrument, admits the existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse; and engages that on due presentment the in - strument will be accepted or paid, or both, according to its tenor, and that if it is dishonored, and the necessary proceedings on dishonor are duly taken, he will pay the amount thereof to the holder, or to any subsequent in - dorser who may be comjoelled to pay it.
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