Section 22: Signature essential to liability
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
22. Signature essential to liability
(1) No person is liable as drawer, indorser or acceptor of a bill who has
not signed it as such.
(2) (a) Where a person signs a bill in a trade or assumed name, he is liable on it as if he had signed it in his own name.
(b) The signature of the name of a firm is equivalent to the signature
by the person so signing of the names of all persons liable as partners in that
firm.
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