 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) 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 or determinate future time, a sum certain... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 pages
...Delivery necessary. Joint and several notes. Noto payable on demand. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) 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 or determinable future time, a sum certain... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...provisions of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, with a few modifications, apply to promissory notes. " 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 or detenninable future time, a certain... | |
 | South Australia - Law - 1884 - 330 pages
...of the cheque by reason only of having received such payment. PART IV. PROMISSORY NOTES. 83. (1.) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in . writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, deanedT"7 "" engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time,... | |
 | James Walter Smith - Catalogs, Publishers' - 1884 - 164 pages
...the very readable chapter on notes given in Part IV of the Act : Promissory Notes. 1. S. 83. (1.) 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 or determinable future time, a sum certain... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1884 - 834 pages
...of the Bill of Ex. Act, 1832, relating to promissory notes are as follows : — By sect. 83. "(1.) 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 or determinable future time, a sum certain... | |
 | Richard Hallilay - Civil procedure - 1884 - 678 pages
...a promissory note: (fieifcr v. Marshall, 3 LT Eep. NS 858.) Q.—Define a promissory note. A.—It 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 determinable time a sum certain in... | |
 | 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 one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time. a sum certain... | |
 | James Lorimer - Law - 1885 - 688 pages
...sum of one hundred pounds sterling for value. (Signed) CD 1604. [The definition of the Act is — "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 or determinable future time, a sum certain... | |
 | Frederick Hayne Carter - 1885 - 260 pages
...sub-sect. 1). HI.— PROMISSORY NOTES. This note is as often called in England a note of hand, and 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 determinable future time, a sum certain... | |
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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 determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order... 
