 | 1917 - 1312 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 in money to order or to bearer." So far as disclosed in this record, the order in question in form and substance conforms to this definition... | |
 | Virginia - 1899 - 724 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 in money to order or to bearer. § 127. BILL NOT AN ASSIGNMENT OF FUNDS IN HANDS OF DRAWEE.— A bill of itself does not operate as... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - 1887 - 754 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 in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to Iwarer. (2) An instrument which docs not comply with these... | |
 | Maryland - 1898 - 700 pages
...discharged. CHAPTER XVII— Promissory Notes and Checks. 203. A negotiable promissory note within tlie meaning of this act is an unconditional promise in...signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sutn certain in money to order or to bearer. Where a note is drawn... | |
 | William Cox Cochran - 1888 - 352 pages
...or non-performance, of a particular thin;;. See Consideration Promissory note, or note of hand, mi unconditional promise in writing, made by one person...signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed, or deterrainablo future time, a sum certain in money to, or to the order of, such other, or... | |
 | 1905 - 1266 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 in money, to order or to bearer. As the instrument in question was not drawn on a bank, and was not therefore a check, it came within... | |
 | Joseph Fitz Randolph - 1888 - 848 pages
...money," Sec. 3244. ENGLISH BILL8 OF EXCHANGE ACT, 1882. — "An unconditional promise in writing made bv 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... | |
 | 1918 - 1258 pages
...by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a iixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." "Sec. 321. * * * A check is a bill of exchange drawn on a bank payable, on demand." The instrument... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - 1889 - 800 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 in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.' It is a chose in action, but, for the encouragement... | |
 | Frederick Hayne Carter - 1890 - 338 pages
...sub-sect. 1). Ш.— PROMISSORY NOTES. This note is as often called in England a note of hand, and is an unconditional promise in writing made by one...determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer (45 and 46 Viet., cap. 61, sect. 83). It is precisely... | |
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A cheque is a Bill of Exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Promissory Note. — 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... 
