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Definition of Promissory
1. Adjective. Relating to or having the character of a promise. "Promissory note"
Definition of Promissory
1. a. Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.
Definition of Promissory
1. Adjective. Containing or consisting of a promise. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: legal of a contractual provision) Stipulating the future actions required of the parties to an insurance policy or other business agreement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Promissory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Promissory
Literary usage of Promissory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"509, 516, a proceeding by tare facias to foreclose a mortgage given to secure
promissory notes, each for a definite principal sum to be paid at a named date ..."
2. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
""promissory representation" is a loose term that has crept into insurance law,
... Thus a usually careful writer says: 20 "Only those promissory ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"That whenever promissory notes are indorsed for the benefit of the drawer ...
That upon all bills of exchange and promissory note's made negotiable by law, ..."
4. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1884)
"to whom the defendant had given promissory notes for ^1000 as security for a ...
Afterwards JC had given the defendant a discharge for the promissory note. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1911)
"It was objected that it •was a promissory note, and not being stamped -as such,
could not be given in evidence. But Chief Justice Tindal said: "I think this ..."
6. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"Definition of a promissory note. TITLE m promissory NOTES AND CHECKS ARTICLE I
Section ... A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this act is an ..."
7. Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History by Association of American Law Schools, Mikell, William Ephraim, 1868-, Ernst Freund, John Henry Wigmore (1909)
"9, respecting promissory notes, is not in force in Virginia; but there is an act
of assembly, 1786, c. 29, by which it is enacted, that " an action of debt ..."
8. Principles of the Law of Contract by William Reynell Anson, Orlando Wesley Aldrich (1880)
"Afterwards JC had given the defendant a discharge for the promissory note. ...
But a promissory note or a bill of exchange appears to stand on ..."
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