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promissory note

negotiable instrument, wherein one party makes an unconditional promise in writing to pay a determinate sum of money to the other
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promissory note

Summary

promissory note is a legal term or legal concept[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (623 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • promissory note's image is recorded as Lletra de canvi, manuscrit sobre paper, 1431, museu d'Història de València.JPG[3].
  • promissory note's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[4].
  • promissory note's GND ID is recorded as 4189324-4[5].
  • promissory note's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85014059[6].
  • promissory note's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119801881[7].
  • promissory note's subclass of is recorded as financial product[8].
  • promissory note's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00988900[9].
  • promissory note's part of is recorded as negotiable instrument[10].
  • promissory note's Commons category is recorded as Promissory notes[11].
  • promissory note's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 1202[12].
  • promissory note's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03yn5v[13].
  • promissory note's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph125725[14].
  • promissory note's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Promissory notes[15].
  • promissory note's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300193970[16].
  • promissory note's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 332.77[17].
  • promissory note's PSH ID is recorded as 1625[18].
  • promissory note's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10641754[19].
  • promissory note's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0120083[20].
  • promissory note's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[21].
  • promissory note's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22].
  • promissory note's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[23].
  • promissory note's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[24].
  • promissory note's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[25].
  • promissory note's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • promissory note's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as money/promissory-note[27].

Body

Geography

promissory note's part of is recorded as negotiable instrument[10].

Designation and Status

promissory note's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[4].

Why It Matters

promissory note ranks in the top 8% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (623 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . islamansiklopedisi.org.tr. islamansiklopedisi.org.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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