 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...signed by the pei-son 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.' It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement of commerce, it is assignable, at common law, by... | |
 | John Indermaur - Common law - 1883 - 604 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...or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer " (u). A promissory note is defined as " an unconditional promise in writing, made by one person to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1883 - 926 pages
...or nueaerl to the record' It is believed that 'hi- section has never been acted upon. deterniinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.' It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement of commerce, it is assignable, at common law, by... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...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, or to bearer." " A promissory note may be made by two or more makers, and they may be liable thereon jointly, or jointly... | |
 | Henry Gilbert Rawson - Law - 1884 - 362 pages
...performance or non-performance of a particular thing. See COnxilleeatiIm. Promissory note, or Note of hand, is " an unconditional promise in writing, made by...to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer." See 45 & 46 Viet. c. 6O. s. 83. See Pagee, Indorsement. Promoter, a common informer (obsolete). (2)... | |
 | John Frederick Haynes - English law - 1884 - 736 pages
...the person giving deflned. 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... | |
 | Accounting - 1884 - 512 pages
...signed by the person irking 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. writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed... | |
 | Richard Hallilay - Civil procedure - 1884 - 678 pages
...signed by the person giving it, requesting 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: (45 & 46 Viet. c. 61, s. 8 (1). (b) (i0 So in the Act. (o) An instrument bad as a bill of exchange... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1884 - 834 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. i " (2.) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders any act to be done... | |
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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... 
