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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Section 7, NI Act: ''Drawer.''

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 7 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in the Act's own words.

The section

7. ''Drawer.''

The maker of a bill of exchange or cheque is called the drawer; the person thereby directed to pay is called the drawee. "Drawee in case of need". -- When in the Bill or in any indorsement thereon the name of any person is given in addition to the drawee to be resorted to in case of need such person is called a "drawee in case of need". "Acceptor". -- After the drawee of a bill has signed his assent upon the bill, or, if there are more parts thereof than one, upon one of such parts, and delivered the same, or given notice of such signing to the holder or to some person on his behalf, he is called the "acceptor". "Acceptor for honour". -- 1[When a bill of exchange has been noted or protested for non-acceptance or for better security,] and any person accepts it supra protest for honour of the drawer or of any one of the indorsers, such person is called an "acceptor for honour". "Payee". -- The person named in the instrument, to whom or to whose order the money is by the instrument directed to be paid, is called the "payee".

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026; a number before a square bracket is India Code's own footnote marker for an amendment. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

  1. India Code: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, section 7 (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.