| Joshua Williams - Conveyancing - 1906 - 764 pages
...as if it A promissory were a separate bill (a). A promissory note is defined by the same Act (6) as an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker (c), engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money,... | |
| Illinois - Law - 1907 - 644 pages
...otherwise, the whole bill is discharged. TITLE III. — PROMISSORY NOTES AND CHECKS. ARTICLE I. § 183. A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of...determinable future time, a sum certain in money to nrder or to bearer. Where a note is drawn to the maker's own order, it is not complete until indorsed... | |
| John Delatre Falconbridge - Banking law - 1907 - 736 pages
...which have never been expressly repealed in Canada. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 176. 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. 2. An instrument in the form of a note payable... | |
| Victoria. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 902 pages
...1883" (No. 772), a codifying Act transcribed from the English 45 & 46 Vic. cap. 61, it is defined as an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer.... | |
| United States. Internal Revenue Service - Tax administration and procedure - 1956 - 1348 pages
...debentures, or notes. • •••*•• "AKT. 48. "Promissory note' defined. — A promissory note Is im 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 such otlier person or to order or to bearer,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 588 pages
...Section 17(J of Ilie Bills of Exchange Act. defines a promissory note as follows:— "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." Section 176, ss. 3 says that: "A note is not... | |
| Queensland - Session laws - 1884 - 444 pages
...payment. PART IV. — PROMISSORY NOTES. 84. (1.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in jj writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, engaging ll to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinate future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the... | |
| Law - 1883 - 500 pages
...7); and note in Fish. Dig. 1880, p. 164. PAST IV.—PROMISSORY NOTES. Sect. 83. " 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." An instrument in form of note payable to maker's... | |
| K Zweigert, U. Drobnig - Law - 1981 - 198 pages
...apparent from a consideration of the nature of a note. BRITISH BEA s. 83(1) defines a promissory note as "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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 582 pages
...that it is a note payable on demand. The Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, defines a promissory note as " an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determihable future time a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
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