Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

342.   General and qualified acceptances

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    (1)   An acceptance is either (a) general, or (b) qualified.

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    (2)   A general acceptance assents without qualification to the order of the drawer. A qualified acceptance in express terms varies the effect of the bill as drawn.

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    In particular, an acceptance is qualified which is —

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      (a)      conditional, that is to say, which makes payment by the acceptor dependent on the fulfilment of a condition therein stated;

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      (b)      partial, that is to say, an acceptance to pay only at a particular specified place;

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           An acceptance to pay at a particular place is a general acceptance, unless it expressly states that the bill is to be paid there only and not elsewhere;

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      (d)      qualified as to time;

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      (e)      the acceptance of some one or more of the drawees, but not of all.