Section 21: Capacity of parties
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21. Capacity of parties
(1) (a) Capacity to incur liability as a party to a bill is coextensive with
capacity to contract.
(b) Nothing in this section shall enable a corporation to make itself
liable as drawer, acceptor, or indorser of a bill unless it is competent under
the law relating to corporations.
(2) Where a bill is drawn or indorsed by an interdicted person, or by a
minor or a corporation, when the minor or corporation has no capacity or
power to incur liability on a bill, the drawing or indorsement entitles the
holder to receive payment of the bill, and to enforce it against any other
party, subject to the respective rights of parties under articles 1312 and
1338 of the Code Civil Mauricien.