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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bills-of-exchange-act-1882/section-23",
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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/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Signature essential to liability.",
  "text": "No person is liable as drawer, indorser, or acceptor of a bill who has not signed it as such: Provided that\n(1) Where a person signs a bill in a trade or assumed name, he is liable thereon as if he had signed it in his own name:\n(2) The signature of the name of a firm is equivalent to the signature by the person so signing of the names of all persons liable as partners in that firm.",
  "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/23",
    "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."
}