...to bearer, a named sum of money." Joseph Chitty and John Walter Hume, A Practical Treatise on Bills of Exchange, Checks on Bankers, Promissory Notes, Bankers' Cash Notes, and Bank Notes, with Reference to the Law of Scotland, France, and America (12th American edition by JC Perkins; Springfield:...

...1214. 11 Postlethwayt, Dictionary of Trade, II, 22. " Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on the Lavs of Biils of Exchange, Checks on Bankers, Promissory Notes, Bankers Cash Notes and Bank Notes (London, 1799), p. 7, and Powell, Lav of Contracts and Agreements, I, 341. " George Joseph Bell, Commenearies...