Key words: consideration of negotiable instruments; bona fide inheritance; defenses of negotiable instruments; the no-cause character; honest credit
注释：
1 王小能教授将票据的经济职能概括为5点：汇兑职能、信用职能、支付职能、结算职能和融资职能。详细分析参见王小能编著：《
票据法教程》，北京大学出版社2001年版，第19－21页。
2 要点的概括参见潘瑞才、胡礼玲：《试论票据对价》，载《法学论坛》1997年第3期。
3 See Claude D. Rohwer, Gordon D. Schaber: Contracts, West Group , 1999, p.106.
4 台湾现行《
票据法》第
14条规定：“无对价或以不相当之对价取得票据者，不得享有优于其前手之权利。”《香港票据条例》在第27条、第30条也规定了票据对价之有关情况。
5 Maurice Megrah, F.R.Ryder: Byles on Bill of Exchange, London: Sweet&Maxwell, 1972, p.418.
6 There are several circumstances: (1) The instrument is issued or transferred for a promise of performance, to the extent the promise has been performed. (2) The transferee acquires a security interest in or lien on the instrument (other than by legal process). (3) The instrument is issued or transferred as payment of or as security for a preexisting claim. (4) The instrument is issued or transferred in exchange for a negotiable instrument. (5) The instrument is issued or transferred in exchange for an irrevocable commitment to a third person by the person taking the negotiable instrument. See Thomas W. Dunfee: Modern Bussiness Law and the Regulatory Enviroment (3th Edition), McGrawHill. Inc., 1996, p.494.
7 Robert Bradgate, Nigel Savage: Commercial Law, Butterworths, 1991, p.409.
8 以下分析主要参考吕来明主编：《
票据法前沿问题案例研究》，中国经济出版社2001年版，第73－74页；潘瑞才、胡礼玲：《试论票据对价》，载《法学论坛》1997年第3期。
