When presentment not required to charge the drawer / indorser
Sec. 79. When presentment not required to charge the drawer. - Presentment for payment is not required in order to charge the drawer where he has no right to expect or require that the drawee or acceptor will pay the instrument.
Sec. 80. When presentment not required to charge the indorser. - Presentment is not required in order to charge an indorser where the instrument was made or accepted for his accommodation and he has no reason to expect that the instrument will be paid if presented.
APPLICATION OF SECTION 79 AND 80
• These provisions give exceptions to the general rule that if no presentment for payment is made, the persons primarily liable are discharged
WHERE DRAWER NEED NOT BE GIVEN NOTICE
• Where A withdraws his funds from X, drawee bank, so that they are not sufficient to pay the bill, he has no right to expect or require that the drawee or acceptor would pay the instrument
• Accordingly, where F holder doesn’t make a presentment to X, A drawer would not be discharged by such failure
PRESENTMENT IS NOT REQUIRED TO CHARGE THE DRAWER IN THE FOLLOWING CASES
1. In case the check upon which payment has been stopped
2. Where the drawer’s balance is less than the amount of the check. The mere fact however that the drawer has no funds with drawee at the time he draws, doesn’t render presentment unnecessary if
he still has reasonable grounds to believe that the instrument will be paid, particularly when provision has been made for payment of any bill drawn by the drawer on the drawee
3. Where the drawer of a bill containing the words “Pay from balance” had no money on deposit with the drawee but expected to arrange with the broker to cover drafts