 | Frederick Stroud - 1890 - 1062 pages
...items are disputed, is within them ( Ward v. Pilley, 49 LJQB 705 ; n QBU 427). PROMISSORY NOTE.— "A Promissory Note is an Unconditional Promise in...by the maker, engaging to pay, ON DEMAND, or at a fixed or DETEKMINABLE FUTURE TIME, a SUM CERTAIN in money to, or to the order of, a specified person,... | |
 | James Shaw Sinclair - 1891 - 430 pages
...the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay, on demand or at a fixed determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, a specified person or to the bearer : " Bills of Exchange Act, 1890, page 2. A cheque drawn by the Inspector must, therefore,... | |
 | Charles George Walpole - 1891 - 398 pages
...surety, who promises to pay if the principal debtor (the acceptor) does not. II. A PROMISSORY NOTK is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, future time, a certain sum in money to or to the order of a specific person, or to bearer, (a) The... | |
 | John Barnard Byles - 1891 - 674 pages
...between а ВШ ami a Note . . .14 A PROMISSORY note, or, as it is frequently called, a note of hand, is an unconditional promise in writing, made by one person to another, signed by the maker, to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order... | |
 | Thomas Brett - 1891 - 660 pages
...note is defined by the Act Promissory to be " an unconditional promise, in writing, made by one notes person to another, signed by the maker engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinablo future time, a sum certain, in money, to or to the order of a specified person... | |
 | Ontario. High Court of Justice - 1892 - 810 pages
...Willes in 1742, in Colehan v. Cooke, Willes, 393, at p. 397, a promissory note has been described as " an unconditional promise in writing made by one person...signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person or to bearer."... | |
 | John James MacLaren - 1892 - 646 pages
...promissory note is an unconditional £™^iS8 promise in writing made by one person to another, deflned 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,... | |
 | 1903 - 456 pages
...Promissory notes, hills of exchange, or drafts, bank checks, certificates of deposit and bonds. A ne¿otable promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing...determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to order or to bearer. Mass. Neg. Instruments Law, Sec. 201. A bill of exchange is an unconditional order... | |
 | 1912 - 562 pages
...oath of the defender." The Bills of Exchange Act 1882 (45 & 46 Viet. cap. 61) enacts: Section 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 determinadle future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person... | |
 | Barbados - 1893 - 462 pages
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at fixed or determinate future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified pet son or bearer. (2) An instrument which does not comply with those conditions or which orders any... | |
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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,... 
