note of hand

I may as well have your note of hand for that extra capital.

A lot of people won't cash my notes of hand.

"You owe me five thousand on a note of hand.

Surely a note of hand so old could not be brought to a court of law.

Any amount of money advanced on note of hand.

He used to pay in notes and gold at first, but soon it came to notes of hand and for big sums.

"Nonsense, it is a trifle," Staunton said, refusing his offered note of hand.

"Do not tell me he willingly relinquished a. note of hand and a valuable pledge to you for no more than the bare principal!"

In the circumstances it looks imprudent of Feattus to accept a note of hand which was far from certain to be honoured.

The "notes of hand" (agreements of debt) mean signatures, so Wild already knows the name of the book's owner.

Madame da Souza had accepted Flynn's note of hand for the balance outstanding on her bill.

It was Madame Giselle's custom to lend money on what I think you call in this country 'note of hand alone.'

Richard Cumberland's "Note of Hand"

'Ten pounds to ten thousand on note of hand alone,' murmured Mrs Ackroyd reminiscently. '

Well, Fate had driven me to pocket Kaneke's sovereigns and a kind of note of hand in ivory, so there was an end of the matter.

The Note of Hand, or Trip to Newmarket is a 1774 comedy play by the British writer Richard Cumberland.

His instincts, which were prudential, even miserly, were conquered; he gave her everything, even his signature to notes of hand, which pledged his future.

Senator Dilworthy made one little effort through his protege the embryo banker to recover it, but there being no notes of hand or, other memoranda to support the claim, it failed.

But she knew where Goldhanger lived, and, without telling me what she meant to do, she went to see him herself, and got back my note of hand, and my ring.

It reopened on 13 January 1891 with a performance of Jerome K. Jerome's comedy, Woodbarrow Farm, preceded by Herbert Keith's one-act play The Note of Hand.

Further, I sold him a few of the beasts that I had broken, a gun, some ammunition and certain other necessaries, for all of which things he gave me a note of hand written in my pocket-book.

"Well, I'll do it; but my experience of advertisement pages is that they are monopolized by philanthropists who want to lend you any sum from ten to a hundred thousand pounds on your note of hand only.

"Why then this is very simple; if you give us your note of hand for, let us say, twenty thousand dollars at proper interest and cash to the sum of twenty thousand dollars, we can arrange the matter right here.

Hope was the prevailing emotion and there was not a man there who did not consider himself a potential mil- lionaire to such a degree that they were giving each other notes of hand payable thirty days hence to enormous sums.

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.