In the days when banks were considered as the favored creatures of the law, a summary remedy was given to them in some states and jurisdictions. Especially in the early Alabama reports will be found a great deal of law upon this subject. Cranch's Circuit Court Reports are also thickly sown with cases upon this subject. The matter possesses only an antiquarian interest at the present day. These statutes permitted a judgment upon a bank's claims to be taken without pleadings,1 but took away no defense that the maker of a note possessed.2 They were held to apply only to paper acquired after the act was passed,8 and only to paper payable at the bank;4 but in some instances the remedy extended to all paper due the bank.5 The statute was required to be strictly followed,6 but one case held it to be remedial,7 and the right to exercise the remedy could not be had against the personal representative of a deceased debtor.8 Under special charters the bank could insist upon a right to an immediate trial,9 and could have special privileges as to waiver of proof of notice, demand and protest,10 which privilege applied to notes not made payable at the bank.11

1 Lyon v. State Bank, 1 Stew. 442; Crawford v. Planters' Bk.,4 Ala. 313.

2 Bank of Columbia v. Sweeney, 2 Pet. 671.

3 Levert v. Planters' Bank, 8 Port 104.

4 See last case cited.

5 Hancock v. Branch Bank, 5 Ala. 440.

6 Logwood v. Huntsville Bank, 1 Minor, 23; Levert v. Planters' Bank, 8 Port 104

7 Branch of State Bank v. Harrison, 2 Port. 540.

8 Murphy v. Branch Bank, 5 Ala. 421; Andrews v. Branch Bank, 10-Ala. 375.

9 Bank of Alexandria v. Young, 1 Cranch, C. C. 458.

10 Merchants' Bank v. Central Bank, 1 Kelley, 418; Mahone v. Central Bank, 17 Ga. 111.

11 Donald v. Central Bank, 3 Kelley, 185.