Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 — section 130
130. Cheque bearing “not negotiable”. A person taking a cheque crossed generally or specially, bearing in either case the words “not negotiable,” shall not have, and shall not be capable of giving, a better title to the cheque than that which the person from whom he took it had.
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