"Acceptor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... until Mr., now Sir, Robert Peel's amendment of the criminal law and practice of this country, the acceptor of a bill of exchange, on the principle that he was interested in denying the genuineness of the signature, could not, according to the English law of evidence, be called, on the part of the prosecution, to prove the forgery; and of course, after what had taken place, we ...
— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren |
