The bill was carried by a great majority, as was also another bill to prevent the circulation in England of French assignats, bonds, and promissory notes.
He contended that the word meant more than an abstraction--that it meant a certain weight of precious metal; and the engagement of a maker of a promissorynote was to pay on demand a definite amount of that metal and fineness.
Mr. Tahourdin is to give a contemporaneous existence to the transaction by the production of these letters and instruments, the receipt for two hundred pounds, and the promissory note for two hundred pounds more.
His scheme is this: He gives you a piece of copper for a halfpenny or penny, stamped with a promissory note to pay you twentypence for every pound of the said copper notes, whenever you shall return them.
Evidently soon after he reached this hotel, feeling that at last he had escaped his threatened doom, an envelope was sent up to him, which contained the so-called promissory note.
Very evidently, though I have never set eyes upon him since his visit on the night when he made me give him that diabolically conceivedpromissory note.
Here on the floor is a bit of the paper, and we can still see a few of the words which we know were contained in the promissory note.
The promissory note is the vehicle of his vengeance,--the means by which the opportunity was obtained, and the means by which the end has been consummated.
He has had a great deal of plague and uneasiness about it, and has at last been obliged to give Kingdon his promissory note for L300, payable on demand, so that every hour is not safe.
The large imports of English goods, and the increase of promissory notes, alarmed several persons connected with trade.
We'd have a worn automobile on our hands and another of your familiar signatures on our already too large collection of promissory notes.
The president and secretary of a church corporation have no authority to make a promissory note unless authorized by the board of trustees.
A promissory note given for the subscription, unless negotiated for value in due course of trade, does not change the foregoing rules.
The captive came forth to wear thenceforward those lighter chains only, which are forged by Hymen and wreathed with roses; and the lady applied to his old promissory notes the torch of love, which in a moment reduced them to ashes.
Then he remembered and ran down to the study, and pulled out a sheaf of bills and promissory notes, and renewals thereof, making a very respectable show.
In this case he may give the bank his promissory note, together with stocks, bonds, or other forms of wealth, which the bank holds as security.
Promissory notes were given in exchange, and the sum required was taken to Mr. Murray by the two magistrates, who were thus freed from further responsibility.
I and my friend Mr. Dickenson will give you our promissory notes at three months for the amount.
His contract then constituted a promissory note, and Mr. McGraw knew enough law to realize that failure to pay a promissory note or perform a contract is actionable.
She carefully tore the promissorynote and the assignment of interest into little bits and let them flutter to the floor.
I'll take your promissory note, at seven per cent, and you can secure me with a little mortgage on your Spring- street-business block.
Meanwhile the bill discounters who held the forged acceptances, with other promissory notes, began to clamour for payment, and talk of issuing writs.
But among the charges on the estate he left was a promissory note for L2875, produced by Dr.
Bailey, a promissory note, 341; forgery of wills by W.
You're not going to leave here till you give me a letter for your clerk, telling him to hand over Sir Tancred Beauleigh's promissory note," said Tinker.
When I get the promissory note, or when my father's solicitor gets it.
The promissory note had not come, and the matter had passed from Sir Tancred's mind.
To pay the revenues of the Union in their own promissory notes.
It began in Scotland some years ago, with a banker in Aberdeen, who issued promissory notes payable in London.
Instead of a promissory note, they made this a contract and a lease.
I waited a few minutes, and was then ushered into a back-room, and politely requested to account for this money promissory document.
He obtained from the marchioness two promissory deeds, one for thirty thousand livres in his own name, and another for twenty-five thousand livres in the name of Martin, one of his familiars.
And so saying he took from his pocket and exhibited to Mr Rastle the very promissory note, signed by Loman, which he had pretended to tear up and burn the last time that unhappy boy was at the Cockchafer.
He pretended at first that he wouldn't take it; and then when he did, and I asked him to give me back my promissory note, he laughed at me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "promissory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
