A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, 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 in money... A Treatise on the Law of Contracts - Page 452by Joseph Chitty - 1896 - 806 pagesFull view - About this book
| Law - 1918 - 498 pages
...promise in writing made by one person to an-v other, 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." While by section 4051 an instrument, to be negotiable, must conform to the following... | |
| American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...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...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 this section unless... | |
| 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
...by the person who gives it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a determinable future time, a sum certain in money to,...to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer. NOTE.— A Bill of Exchange is frequently called a " Draft." By English law no particular form of words... | |
| India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...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...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 this section unless... | |
| Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...promise iu 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...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 this section unless... | |
| Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...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...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... | |
| W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...defined, 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...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer (a). (2.) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders any act to be... | |
| Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...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...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 this section unless... | |
| Oscar Borchardt - Banking law - 1883 - 392 pages
...writing note defined. 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...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 this section unless... | |
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