as follows: A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this chapter 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... American Law Reports Annotated - Page 1371919Full view - About this book
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1881 - 418 pages
...which ajiply exclusively to promissory notes.] Art. 275. A promissory note is an unconditional Note de promise in writing, made by one person to another,...signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person or to bearer.... | |
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
..."crossed " generally or specially," see sect. 76, PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (i.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one...determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. See further sects. 3 and II and notes thereto.... | |
| W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...probably be held to be evidence of negligence. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) A promissory note (a) is an unconditional promise in writing made by one...determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person or to bearer (6). (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable... | |
| James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, with a few modifications, apply to promissory notes. " A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one...demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a certain sum in money to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer." " A promissory note... | |
| James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 542 pages
...Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, with a few modifications, apply to promissory notes. " A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one...demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a certain sum in money to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer." " A promissory note... | |
| John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 604 pages
...money to, or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer " (u). A promissory note is defined as " an unconditional promise in writing, made by one person...demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a T,. ii • ... 11 11 bills, notes, of advantages sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified... | |
| Banks and banking - 1884 - 926 pages
...one person to another, 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 in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer." That definition completely embraces in it a cheque.... | |
| DR. FRANZ BERNHOFT, DR. GEORG COHN, AND DR. J. KOHLER - 1883 - 542 pages
...und desselben Praxis des Handelsrechts p. 52 ff. und Goldschmidt. Z. f. HR XXVIII. p. 95, n. 58. *) 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." Hier ist der Verpflichtung des Ausstellers des... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - Banks and banking - 1883 - 592 pages
...one person to another, 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 in money, to,.or to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer " Now it is true that every Bill of Exchange... | |
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