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Definition of Negotiable instrument

1. Noun. An unconditional order or promise to pay an amount of money.

Definition of Negotiable instrument

1. Noun. (legal banking business) A right to receive payment of money which is unconditional (sometimes excepting loss or theft) and capable of transfer by negotiation. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Negotiable Instrument

Literary usage of Negotiable instrument

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"AMOUNT: blanks for, in negotiable instruments, 1141. certainty of, requisite for negotiable instrument, 1137. change in, of contract is material alteration, ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"A certificate was assumed to be a negotiable instrument in Coye v. ... 838, that'a certificate of deposit is a negotiable instrument; but in that case the ..."

3. Handbook of the Law of Bills and Notes by Charles Phelps Norton, William Underhill Moore, Harold McLean Wilkie (1914)
"The common rules regarding a negotiable instrument as a medium of payment are as follows: (a) Where a negotiable instrument to which the debtor is a party ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Negotiable Instruments: Including Bills of Exchange by John Warwick Daniel (1913)
"... the loser of a negotiable instrument has no claim on a payor who pays it when he is bound to do so, but generally has such claim when the payor pays it ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The contention of the plaintiff thereabout Is: (1) That the bill Is a negotiable Instrument; (2) that the bank failed to give notice to Jones of the ..."

6. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"2313 PAGE ON CONTRACTS A warehouse receipt, even if made negotiable by statute,22 is riot a negotiable instrument within the meaning of this rule. ..."

7. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"AMOUNT: blanks for, in negotiable instruments, 1141. certainty of, requisite for negotiable instrument, 1137. change in, of contract is material alteration, ..."

8. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"A certificate was assumed to be a negotiable instrument in Coye v. ... 838, that'a certificate of deposit is a negotiable instrument; but in that case the ..."

9. Handbook of the Law of Bills and Notes by Charles Phelps Norton, William Underhill Moore, Harold McLean Wilkie (1914)
"The common rules regarding a negotiable instrument as a medium of payment are as follows: (a) Where a negotiable instrument to which the debtor is a party ..."

10. A Treatise on the Law of Negotiable Instruments: Including Bills of Exchange by John Warwick Daniel (1913)
"... the loser of a negotiable instrument has no claim on a payor who pays it when he is bound to do so, but generally has such claim when the payor pays it ..."

11. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The contention of the plaintiff thereabout Is: (1) That the bill Is a negotiable Instrument; (2) that the bank failed to give notice to Jones of the ..."

12. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"2313 PAGE ON CONTRACTS A warehouse receipt, even if made negotiable by statute,22 is riot a negotiable instrument within the meaning of this rule. ..."

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