Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... bank officers I. bank cashiers The powers and duties, rights and liabilities of bank cashiers, as laid down and reflected in various decisions of the courts, will be considered first. Then will be shown the course of recent rulings with regard to bank presidents, directors, and bank officers in general. There are two reasons for following this order, (a) It is the one of practical interest and importance, (b) It is suggested by the nature and amount of material for each subdivision. The matter contained in this book is virtually what appeared in the magazine Business Aid during the last three and a half years or so down to January, 1914. It has been rearranged according to topics, and to a degree rewritten, but not changed with regard to legal references, which are given or omitted just as was done in the magazine, which for approximately the first half of the period covered did not give them, believing that for the purpose sought to be subserved they were as well, if not better, omitted. The extent to which such information as is herein contained may be immediately and directly applied does not by any means indicate its full value. Besides furnishing many direct precedents for guidance, it supplies even more principles which should aid in the solution of the business problems which from time to time will arise for which no exact precedent can be found. It is not enough that banks employ attorneys, even the best to be had. Beyond that, it is almost indispensable that bank officers, and cashiers in particular, should be for themselves as reliably informed as possible as. to where they stand legally, and what they should or should not do in a multitude of cases. In a hundred, or many hundred, transactions a cashier may have no question...
