What is Non-liability of banker receiving payment of cheque? What is Application of Chapter to drafts? What is Set of bills? Non-liability of banker receiving payment of cheque, Application of Chapter to drafts and Set of bills are defined under Section 131, 131A and 132 of Negotiable Instruments Act 1881
A banker who has in good faith and without negligence received payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself shall not, in case the title to the cheque proves defective, incur any liability to the true owner of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment.
Explanation I - A banker receives payment of a crossed cheque for a customer within the meaning of this section notwithstanding that he credits his customer's account with the amount of the cheque before receiving payment thereof.
Explanation II - It shall be the duty of the banker who receives payment based on an electronic image of a truncated cheque held with him, to verify the prima facie genuineness of the cheque to be truncated and any fraud, forgery or tampering apparent on the face of the instrument that can be verified with due diligence and ordinary care.
The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to any draft, as defined in section 85A, as if the draft were a cheque.
Bills of exchange may be drawn in parts, each part being numbered and containing a provision that it shall continue payable only so long as the others remain unpaid. All the parts together make a set; but the whole set constitutes only one bill, and is extinguished when one of the parts, if a separate bill, would be extinguished.
Exception : When a person accepts or indorses different parts of the bill in favour of different persons, he and the subsequent indorsers of each part are liable on such part as if it were a separate bill.
Negotiable Instruments Act 1881
Section 121 - Estoppel against denying capacity of payee to indorse
Section 122 - Estoppel against denying signature or capacity of prior party
CHAPTER XIV OF CROSSED CHEQUES
Section 123 - Cheque crossed generally
Section 124 - Cheque crossed specially
Section 125 - Crossing after issue
Section 126 - Payment of cheque crossed generally
Section 127 - Payment of cheque crossed specially more than once
Section 128 - Payment in due course of crossed cheque
Section 129 - Payment of crossed cheque out of due course
Section 130 - Cheque bearing not negotiable
Section 131 - Non-liability of banker receiving payment of cheque
Section 131A - Application of Chapter to drafts
CHAPTER XV OF BILLS IN SETS
Section 133 - Holder of first acquired part entitled to all
CHAPTER XVI OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Section 134 - Law governing liability of maker, acceptor or indorser of foreign instrument
Section 135 - Law of place of payment governs dishonour
Section 136 - Instrument made, etc., out of India, but in accordance with the law of India
Section 137 - Presumption as to Foreign Law
CHAPTER XVII OF PENALTIES IN CASE OF DISHONOUR OF CERTAIN CHEQUES FOR INSUFFICIENCY OF FUNDS IN THE ACCOUNTS
Section 138 - Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency, etc., of funds in the account
Section 139 - Presumption in favour of holder
Section 140 - Defence which may not be allowed in any prosecution under section 138
Section 141 - Offences by companies
Section 142 - Cognizance of offences
Section 143 - Power of Court to try cases summarily
Section 144 - Mode of service of summons
Section 145 - Evidence on affidavit
Section 146 - Bank's slip prima facie evidence of certain facts