 | Law - 1918 - 498 pages
...chapter is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to an-v other, signed by the maker, engaging to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer." While by section 4051 an instrument, to be negotiable, must conform to the following... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1878 - 366 pages
...person in whose favour the promise is made, called the payee. Cf. Art. 2. Explanation. — -A writing in the form of a note payable to maker's order is not a note, but by in-- dorsement it becomes one.1 ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. B. makes a note payable to his own order,... | |
 | American Bar Association - Law - 1887 - 460 pages
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinahle future time a sum certain in money to or to the order...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... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1884 - 926 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." That definition completely embraces in it a cheque. A cheque is such an order : an unconditional order... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Negotiable instruments - 1881 - 418 pages
...by the person who gives it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand, or at a determinable future time, a sum certain in money to,...to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer. NOTE.— A Bill of Exchange is frequently called a " Draft." By English law no particular form of words... | |
 | Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Edwin Stewart Chalmers - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 126 pages
...note is an unconditional jer promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand, or at a fixed or determinable...to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. See further sects. 3 and II and notes thereto. (2.) An instrument in the form of a note payable to... | |
 | India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - Negotiable instruments - 1882 - 362 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...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... | |
 | W. D. Thorburn - Bills of exchange - 1882 - 316 pages
...defined, 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 (a). (2.) An instrument which does not comply with these conditions, or which orders any act to be... | |
 | Great Britain - 1882 - 574 pages
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinablc future time a sum certain in money to or to the order...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... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1882 - 726 pages
...giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinablo future time a sum certain in money to or to the order...specified person, or to bearer. (2.) An instrument which does not comply with those conditions, or which orders any act to bo done in addition to the... | |
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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... 
