Talk:denned

The word "denned" appears in several Acts of Parliament, in particular, in the Bills of Exchange Act 1882. it is used in the heading of section 3 "Bill of exchange denned" and again in a later paragraph of section 45 "Presentment must be made by the holder or by some person authorised to receive payment on his behalf at a reasonable hour on a business day, at the proper place as herein-after denned, either to the person designated by the bill as payer, or to some person authorised to pay or refuse payment on his behalf if with the exercise of reasonable diligence such person can there be found."

I believe this is an old-English method of describing the location at which an event may happen or a person may reasonably expect to be found. However, the use in the title of section 3 confuses me. The later official versions of this document contain spelling mistakes, so I wondered if this was another one. Otherwise, this may be taken to mean "The place where bills of exchange live" or more accurately, "The introduction or overview about bills of exchange". Then again, I could be wrong. 92.16.121.121 21:12, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Have you looked at an image of the text itself? Apparently character recognition software has a tendency to mistake "defined" for "denned". Most of the hits that I checked in a Google books search that wereren't about bears are scannos for defined. Compare, for instance, this and this Chuck Entz (talk) 01:29, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Could be an error for dunned; see dun re debt collection. Equinox ◑ 11:46, 21 September 2019 (UTC)