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Kinds of Defenses: Note Rules On Acceptance/Payment Under Mistake As Applied To
Kinds of Defenses: Note Rules On Acceptance/Payment Under Mistake As Applied To
Kinds of Defenses: Note Rules On Acceptance/Payment Under Mistake As Applied To
precluded:
Real Defenses
1.) Minority
2.) Forgery
3.) Non-delivery of an incomplete instrument
4.) Material alteration
5.) Ultra vires act of the corporation
6.) Fraud in factum/esse contractus
7.) illegality (if declared void for any purpose)
8.) Force/violence
9.) Lack of authority
10.) Prescription
11.) Discharge in insolvency
Personal Defenses
1.) Failure/absence of consideration
2.) Illegal consideration
3.) Non-delivery of a complete instrument
4.) Conditional delivery of a complete instrument
5.) Fraud in inducement
6.) Filling up blank not within authority
7.) Duress/intimidation
8.) Filling up blank beyond reasonable time
9.) Transfer in breach of faith
10.) Mistake
11.) Insertion of wrong date
12.) Ante-dating or post-dating for illegal/fraudulent purposes