 A (negotiable) 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 order or to bearer.  The Law of Bills, Notes, and Cheques - Page 318by Melville Madison Bigelow - 1900 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cox Cochran - 1892 - 370 pages
...Promissory note, or note of hand, 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 determinablo future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, such other, or to... | |
 | George Fewkes Clarke - 1898 - 124 pages
...of 1882 (Bills of Exchange) as "An unconditional " promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by " the maker, engaging to pay on demand or...determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to " the order of a specified person or to bearer." In this case there is no need for the note to... | |
 | Gold Coast, Sir William Brandford Griffith - 1898 - 714 pages
...unconditional promise Promissory in writing made by one person to another signed by the note definedmaker, 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. (2) An instrument in the form of a note payable... | |
 | New York (State). Courts - 1898 - 882 pages
...statute .above set forth has been superseded by that of 1897 (chap. (312, § 320), which provides that, " where a note is drawn to the maker's own order, it is not complete until indorsed by him." But, as the transaction, which forms the subject-matter of the case at bar, took place prior to the... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1898 - 48 pages
...addressed by one person to another, whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinal future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. SECTION 127. A bill of itself does not operate as an Liability of assignment of the funds in the hands... | |
 | Joseph Fitz Randolph - 1899 - 1068 pages
...defined. 83. (1) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one perron to another signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or...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... | |
 | William James Tremeear - 1899 - 510 pages
...defines a promissory note as " an unconditional promise in writing made by one " person to another signed by the maker, engaging " to pay on demand or...determinable '•future time a sum certain, in money, to or to the " order of a specified person or to bearer" (46). An instrument in the form of a promissory... | |
 | 1899 - 1224 pages
...Rep. (NY Supreme Ct.) 734. But this statute was superseded by an act of 1897, which provided that " where a note is drawn to the maker's own order it is not complete until indorsed by him." Odell v. Clyde, 23 Misc. Rep. (NY Supreme Ct.) 734. Statutory Negotiability. — Where a warehouse... | |
 | Washington (State) - 1899 - 476 pages
...BILLS OF EXCHANGE. ARTICLE I.—Form and Interpretation. whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. SEC. 127. A bill of itself does not operate as an assignment of the funds in the hands of the drawee... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1899 - 856 pages
...\vithin the meaning of this act 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 determinate future time a sum certain in money to order or to l>earer. Where a note is drawn... | |
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