Chapter 1

   

   Share

   Ordinary share

   Preference share

   Interim certificate

   Share subscription certificate

   Mutual funds certificate

   Bonds

   Coupon

   Investment vouchers

   Subscription warrant

   Bill of exchange

   Promissory note

   Cheque

   Travel cheque

   Bill of lading

   Warehouse certificate

   Agricultural warehouse certificate

   

   

   Chapter 2

   

   Securities and Their Legal Regulation

   Classification of the Securities According to the Form

   Classification of the Securities According to their transferability

   Securities upon name (au nom)

   Securities on order

   Securities on Bearer (au porteur)

   

   Chapter 3

   

   Security instrument

   Payment by a bill of exchange (pro soluto)

   Payment by means of bill of exchange (pro solvendo)

   Sec. 334 of Commercial Code

   

   

   Chapter 4

   

   Bill of exchange

   Promissory note

   Drawer

   Payee

   Direct debtor

   Draft

   Reduced number of participants

   Bill of exchange drawn on the drawer himself

   Bill of exchange payable to drawer’s order

   

   Chapter 5

   

   BECA

   

   Chapter 6

   

   The Geneva Convention

   Convention on unified bill of exchange

   Uniform Law on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes

   Convention for the settlement of certain conflicts of laws in connection with bills of
   exchange and promissory notes

   

   Chapter 7

   

   System of the Act

   Three separately numbered articles

   

   Chapter 8

   

   Consumer Credit

   Sec. 12 of the Act on Consumer Credits

   Objections

   

   

   Chapter 9

   

   Direct and indirect (regress) debtor

   Preserving (maintaining) acts (presentation and protest)

   Drawer (maker)

   Trasant

   Payee

   “Remitent”

   Drawee

   Acceptor

   Aval

   Indorser

   Indorsee

   Domicile

   

   

   Chapter 10

   

   Writing

   Alonge

   Copy

   Form

   

   Chapter 11

   

   Independence of bill statements

   Wrong signatures

   Signatures of fictitious persons

   

   Chapter 12

   

   Agency

   Exceeding the powers of agency.

   

   

   Chapter 13

   

   Endorsement

   “Not to order”

   Assignment

   

   

   Chapter 14

   

   Blank instrument

   Bad faith

   Gross negligence

   

   Chapter 15

   

   Change of invalid paper into valid one

   Changes of text of valid paper

   Changes leading to invalidity of the paper

   

   Chapter 16

   

   The term “promissory note”

   Unconditional promise to pay a determinate sum of money

   Maturity

   Payable at sight

   

   

   Chapter 17

   

   The term “bill of exchange”

   Unconditional order to pay a certain sum of money

   Drawer

   Money expressed in words or figures

   Currency

   Interests

   Drawee

   Indication of maturity

   Bills of exchange payable at sight (sight drafts)

   Bills of exchange payable at a fixed period after sight (time drafts)

   Bills of exchange payable at a fixed period after the date of drawing (time drafts)

   Bills of exchange payable on a fixed day (fixed time drafts)

   Successive maturity

   Place of payment

   Designation of the payee

   Day and place of drawing

   Signature of the drawer

   

   

   Chapter 18

   

   Acceptance

   Protesting the bill for non-payment.

   Direct debtor

   

   Chapter 19

   

   Aval

   Complete aval

   Reduced aval

   Objections of an aval

   

   

   Chapter 20

   

   Endorsement

   Written contract (assignment of a debt)

   Restrictive clause

   “not to order”

   “blanket tradition”

   Clause of transfer

   Effects of endorsements

   

   

   Chapter 21

   

   Presenting of the bill for payment

   Preserving act

   Exceptions to the rule of compulsory presentment

   Vis major

   Bills at sight

   Working days

   

   Chapter 22

   

   Protest

   Second preserving act

   Clause “without protest”

   

   Chapter 23

   

   Notification duty

   

   Chapter 24

   

   Recourse

   Drawer

   Types of Recourse

   Content of rights of recourse

   Expenses (especially the expenses on protest and notification)

   Provision

   Discount rate of the Czech National Bank

   Reimbursement

   

   Chapter 25

   

   Limitation of rights

                                       

   Chapter 26

   

   Geneva system

   Geneva Convention for the Settlement of Certain Conflicts of Law in connection with Bills of
   Exchange and Promissory Notes

   Passive capacity in relation to bills of exchange

   Transmission

   lex loci actus

   “provison”

   Discharging