But Mr Justice JONES said, it was the custom of merchants that made that good.

" Here, it will be observed, that the court, in order to eluci- date the subject before them, refer to principles of law more certain and better known, viz, that a promissory note pay- able to bearer is good, and that promissory notes were within the custom of merchants.

If any doubt could remain, that the case of Hill Lewis had fully settled the law, that promissory notes were within the custom of merchants, that doubt must have been com- pletely removed by the case of Williams.

Williams, decided at the next term in the same year, in the king's bench Carth.

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