Talk:Promissory note
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There is another very common financial and legal use for the term "Demand Note", which is a promissory note that is payable upon demand by the lender (rather than having a term). I think we should create a stub article and disambiguation page to distinguish the use, or add a footnote to this article making the point. Sam 16:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Legal status outside the US
I would be interested to know the legal status of Promissory Notes in Europe. All the information I have been able to find on the web re this subject deals only with US law. Are Promissory Notes valid in the EU? And if so, how are they enforced? MM
[edit] Totldork's answer
Promissory Notes are acceptable anywhere they are recognized as money, which is anywhere there is a bank that is a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is the UN's bank established by the bankers of the Federal Reserve.
Since the beginning of known civilization sovereign countries and free men have continually developed languages in an attempt to communicate and cooperate. As such, there is always a continuing need for ongoing teaching, agreement and understanding of Natural Law in the present day, on the cutting edge of human experience.
Many of our most foundational understandings of Natural Law have been learned and taught and relearned so many times that it has become unecessary to ejudicate them anymore. These become known as maxims. Out of these maxims have come several volumes of laws and rules that are further attempts at codifying Natural Law into a universally acceptable set of ideas that any two sovereign persons can rely on. Sovereigns being further described as any corporations, merchants, individuals, countries, banks, etc thats involved in any kind of commercial transactions. Hence, the idea of Merchant Law most often referred to in the international, a.k.a. 'admiralty' jurisdictions. The UCC or Uniform Commercial Code is our modern day codification of Merchant Law as developed out of centuries of world-wide commerce.
In the UCC, it explains what is commonly accepted among bankers as money. Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Drafts and like are common forms of money that are as old as commerce itself. In fact, all the worlds currencies, including the Federal Reserve Note, is just that, a promissory Note. The note is only given value when any two or more parties agree that it has a specific value. Otherwise, it's just paper!
The short answer then being, Promissory notes are legal and common forms of exchange at any bank in the world that can verify its value. This would be at least any bank under the IMF, which is just about all of them. Enforcement jurisdiction, I imagine, varies depending on how any two parties might agree to do so. An International Law specialist might know about common practices and standards specific to the industry. Hope this rambling was as helpful for you as it was for me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Totldork (talk • contribs)
- I don't think the above poster knows what he is talking about...promissory notes have nothing to do with admiralty law or the International Monetary Fund, and the Uniform Commercial Code has little connection with the merchant law of pre-modern times. The IMF was not founded by the Federal Reserve, and its members are countries, not banks. --Eastlaw (talk) 02:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] External link request
Dear Wikipedia, I do not know the answer to the above question, however, I wish to ask you something. Will you link to my website in return for me linking to yours? I would greatly appreciate it if you say yes :) www.proia-investmentprofessionals.com
Sincerely yours, Chrisproia 21:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)Christopher ProiaChrisproia 21:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
- We appreciate you making the effort to ask, but Wikipedia does not engage in link swapping in that way. We add links we believe provide good encyclopedic information that cannot be included in the article itself. See our external links guidelines for more. Your site is not really appropriate for a Wikipedia article. -- Siobhan Hansa 22:09, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Legal Elements of a Promissory Note
I appreciate your entry about promissory notes.
I wonder if you could clarify what the essential elements of a promissory note are, if there are any, to make the note legal. For example, I recently found a copy of a promissory note that is only signed by the people who were the promisors. Does it need any other signatures? Does it need to be notarized? (There is a mortgage and a 2nd mortgage associated with it, and I have them as well.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.90.224.42 (talk) 16:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
