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promissory note

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Promissory Note
A written, dated and signed two-party instrument containing an unconditional promise by the maker to pay a definite sum of money to a payee on demand or at a specified future date.

Notes:
The only difference between a promissory note and a bill of exchange is that the maker of a note to pays the payee personally, rather than ordering a third party to do so.

When a bank is the maker promising to repay money it has received plus interest, the promissory note is called a certificate of deposit (CD).


Promissory note
Written pledge to pay.

promissory note
See note.


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