 | 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... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinahle future time a sum certain in money to or to the order...specified person, or to bearer. (2) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders any act to be done in addition to the... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...owner of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing...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... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 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...specified person, or to bearer. (2.) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders any act to be done in addition to the... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinablo future time a sum certain in money to or to the order...specified person, or to bearer. (2.) An instrument which does not comply with those conditions, or which orders any act to bo done in addition to the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...provisions of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, with a few modifications, apply to promissory notes. " A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing...signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or detenninable future time, a certain sum in money to, or to the order of, a specified person,... | |
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A cheque is a Bill of Exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Promissory Note. — 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... 
