bills and notes
131nonnegotiable instrument — According to a well understood meaning in the law of bills and notes, a term of art which refers only to commercial paper. An instrument which is not negotiable, that is, any instrument which does not meet the requirements laid down to qualify an …
132AS`SIGNATS — bills or notes, to the number of 45 thousand million, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France in 1790, and based on the security of Church and other lands appropriated by it, and which in course of time sunk in value, to… …
