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,... Acts of the State of Ohio - Page 195by Ohio - 1902Full view - About this book
| Ohio - Session laws - 1902 - 1050 pages
...bill. Acceptance by separate instrument. Promise to accept; when equivalent to acceptance. :nand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer. Sec. 3175^. [Bill not an assignment of funds in hands of drawee.] A bill of itself does not operate... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Conway Robinson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, James Muscoe Matthews, George W. Hansbrough, Martin Parks Burks - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1008 pages
...Sup., 309) defines a negotiable promissory note within the meaning of the act, and declares that, " Where a note is drawn to the maker's own order it is not complete until endorsed by him." These provisions of the statute are but declaratory of the principle of universal... | |
| Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control - Budget - 1903 - 1150 pages
...Negotiable promissory note. A negotiable promissory note, within the meaning of this chapter, is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...own order, it is not complete until indorsed by him. lew, ch.-4, sisa. §4355. Check. A check is a bill of exchange drawn on a bank payable on demand. Except... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 1702 pages
...v. Offield, 81 Wash. 442, 143 Рас. 159. Our statute recognizes "myself" notes in this way : "... Where a note is drawn to the maker's own order, it is not complete until indorsed 'by him." Rev. Stat. § 521701. And such a note, when completed by the indorsement of the maker, becomes in effect... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1899 - 410 pages
...AND CHECKS. ARTICLE I. SEC. 184. A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...order, it is not complete until indorsed by him. SEC. 185. A check is a bill of exchange drawn on a bank payable on demand. Except as herein otherwise provided,... | |
| K Zweigert, U. Drobnig - Law - 1981 - 198 pages
...from a consideration of the nature of a note. BRITISH BEA s. 83(1) defines a promissory note as "an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 582 pages
...it is a note payable on demand. The Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, defines a promissory note as " an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determihable future time a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 582 pages
...section 83 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, as " an unconditional promise in writing made by ono 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... | |
| Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 652 pages
...Banker. PAET IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. Promissory Note ilffiiinl. 83. ( 1 •) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...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, n specified person... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1026 pages
...promissory note. A negotiable promissory note under section 5131 of the Code of Alabama 1907— "is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." But in addition to the promise to pay the payee of the instrument In question, the sum of $658.50 on... | |
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