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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-exchange-act-1882/section-22",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/45-46/61",
  "legislation_title": "Bills of Exchange Act 1882",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-exchange-act-1882",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Capacity of parties.",
  "text": "(1) Capacity to incur liability as a party to a bill is coextensive with capacity to contract.\nProvided that nothing in this section shall enable a corporation to make itself liable as drawer, acceptor, or indorser of a bill unless it is competent to it so to do under the law for the time being in force relating to corporations.\n(2) Where a bill is drawn or indorsed by an infant, minor, or corporation having no capacity or power to incur liability on a bill, the drawing or indorsement entitles the holder to receive payment of the bill, and to enforce it against any other party thereto.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/61/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:57.253128+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}