 A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.  The Elements of Mercantile Law - Page 241by Thomas Moffitt Stevens, Herbert Jacobs - 1903 - 483 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law - 1918 - 498 pages
...the meaning of this chapter is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to an-v other, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or...determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." While by section 4051 an instrument, to be negotiable, must conform to the following... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1878 - 366 pages
...person in whose favour the promise is made, called the payee. Cf. Art. 2. Explanation. — -A writing in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note, but by in-- dorsement it becomes one.1 ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. B. makes a note payable to his own order,... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...conditional by proper words thereon. PART IV.— PROMISSORY NOTES. SEC. 77. (1) That a promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...or to the order of a specified person or to bearer. (2) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning of... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1884 - 926 pages
...signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain...to the order of a specified person, or to bearer." That definition completely embraces in it a cheque. A cheque is such an order : an unconditional order... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1881 - 418 pages
...exclusively to promissory notes.] Art. 275. A promissory note is an unconditional Note < ] epromise in writing, made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a determinate future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person or to bearer.... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...and several notes. Noto payable on demand. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...specially," see sect. J6. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (i.) A promissory note is an unconditional jer promise in writing made by one person to another signed...to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. See further sects. 3 and II and notes thereto. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...PROMISSORY NOTES. Promissory Note defined. 83- (1 •) A promissory note is an unconditional promise iu writing made by one person to another signed by the...to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...reason only of having received such payment. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinate future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
 | W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...PROMISSORY NOTES. Promissory 83. (l.) A promissory note (a) is an unconditional note defined. .... promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or dcterminable future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
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