Note of hand

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NOTE OF HAND, contracts. Another name, less technical, for a promissory note. (q.v.) 2 Bl. Com. 467. Vide Bank note; Promissory note, Reissuable note.

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The conversation ended by the count, who wished to be generous and to avoid further importunity, saying that he would give a note of hand for eighty thousand rubles.

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'By Allah!' the keen eyes swept the veranda for an Instant - 'thy lama has sent what to me looks like a note of hand. I have had some few dealings in hoondis.

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Under these circumstances, alike humiliating to endure, humiliating to contemplate, and humiliating to relate, I have discharged the pecuniary liability contracted at this establishment, by giving a note of hand, made payable fourteen days after date, at my residence, Pentonville, London.