This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
In the absence of specific statutory provisions it is not necessary that a negotiable instrument should be dated.1 If a negotiable instrument is dated, the fact that it was dated either before or after the time at which it was in fact delivered, does not render such instrument invalid unless such false date was inserted fraudulently.2 A post-dated check is negotiable.3
 
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