 | George Lisle - Accounting - 1903 - 560 pages
...a bill of exchange except that of paying it when presented. Promissory Notes. — 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" (Bills of Exchange Act). The following is the usual... | |
 | Thomas Moffitt Stevens, Herbert Jacobs - Commercial law - 1903 - 536 pages
...[1900] 1 QB 270; 5 Com. Caa. 1. PROMISSORY NOTES. A promissory note is defined by the Act to be (e) "an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person or to bearer." An instrument in the form of a note payable to... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1903 - 814 pages
...defined as "an unconditional promise I?) Section 83. («) Section 68. (••) Sections 66, 67. '' in writing made by one person to another, signed by the " maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or deter" minable future time, a sum certain in money, to or to the " order of a specified person,... | |
 | John A. Meelboom - Accounting - 1904 - 184 pages
..."Loss," hence Profit and Loss Account. Compare " Revenue." PN Promissory note. A negotiable instrument. " An unconditional " promise in writing made by one...determinable "future time, a sum certain in money to or to order of a specified " person, or to bearer " — Bills of Exchange Act, Section 83. PROMOTER.... | |
 | Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, Frederick George Neave, Leonard Henry West - Law - 1904 - 368 pages
...contract involves the idea of mutuality, which a promise does not. 2 Steph. Cum. [CONTRACT ; COVENANT.] unconditional promise in writing, made by one person...determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer. The person who makes the note is called the maker,... | |
 | Kentucky - Law - 1904 - 384 pages
...TITLE III. -PROMISSORY NOTES AND CHECKS.; ARTICLE I. §184. A. negotiable promissory note within thq meaning- of this act is an unconditional promise in...signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or detenu inable future time, a snm certain in money to order or to bearer. Where a note is drawn... | |
 | Connecticut. Office of Bank Commissioner - Banks and banking - 1904 - 450 pages
...4354. Negotiable promissory note. A negotiable promissory note, within the meaning of this chapter, is an unconditional promise in writing made by one...signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinate future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. Where a note is drawn... | |
 | James Smith McMaster - 1904 - 784 pages
...would be unavailing. "A promissory note, as defined by the English bills of exchange act (section 83), is 'an unconditional promise in writing made by one...signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a certain sum in money to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Personal property - 1904 - 548 pages
...action on the note itself." By the Act of 1882, a promissory note is denned to be " an Definition. unconditional promise in writing made by one person...signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or 1 Hannan's Co. v. Armstrong, 5 Com. 4 Lond., City ik Mid. Hank v. Gordon, Cm. 188. [1003]... | |
 | Maryland - Law - 1904 - 1280 pages
...payment or otherwise, the whole bill is discharged. CHAPTER XVII— Promissory Notes and Checks. 203. A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of...unconditional promise in writing made by one person to anpther, signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a... | |
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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... 
