 | 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
...words thereon. PART IV.— PROMISSORY NOTES. SEC. 77. (1) That a promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another,...or to the order of a specified person or to bearer. (2) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning of... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...notes. Noto payable on demand. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed...to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...PROMISSORY NOTES. Promissory Note defined. 83- (1 •) A promissory note is an unconditional promise iu writing made by one person to another signed by the...to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...having received such payment. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) 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 determinate future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Oscar Borchardt - Banking law - 1883 - 392 pages
...PROMISSORY NOTES. Promissory 83. (1.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing note defined. made by one person to another signed by the maker,...to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note within the meaning... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Banks and banking - 1883 - 592 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 " Now it is true that every Bill of Exchange is an Order to pay money : bat every Order to pay money... | |
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A negotiable promissory note within 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 determined future time, a sum certain- in money to order,... 
