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* Yet at this moment my hopes and my confidence tell me that I shall raise it, for surely someboddy might take my promisory Note for 50, as well as I took Fishers for 300!
Letter 273 2009
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A promisory note issued by the company is a claim against the assets * of the company*.
Stock Options, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A promisory note issued by the company is a claim against the assets * of the company* .
Stock Options, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Social Security has NO reserves, just government promisory notes.
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Right now ever American in this country holds a liability of $30,777 which we owe to various banks, investment firms and foreign governments who have bought the promisory notes which our government has issued with the promise of payback at some future date.
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After enlisting the aid of our Congressman, we received a promisory note (18 months later) saying the money would be forthcoming.
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Notes are in fact promisory notes - they aren't money, at all.
Where does real end and virtual begin? Karyn Romeis 2007
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But in reality, as soon as the student signs the promisory notes, the student loans are repackaged on the secondary market, most frequently through Sallie Mae, where they are resold as secured — in what, one might ask?
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Yale Law Journal Pocket Part Essay on Regulatory Takings and the Poor: 2007
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Part of the terms of which might include some detail about how people may or may not exchange such promisory notes with one another.
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While a 'service' isn't transferable, a promisory note for a service is. e.g. kid gives dad a home made coupon "good for one lawn mowing".
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