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23 Signature essential to liability.U.K.

No person is liable as drawer, indorser, or acceptor of a bill who has not signed it as such: Provided that

(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:

(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.

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