negotiable paper

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Some public officials have not viewed the mementos of their official days as negotiable paper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Negotiable Paper.—By negotiable paper is meant paper that can be sold and transferred.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney

Notes which had been negotiable, paper money of every description, and even silver currency suddenly became of little value.

From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew

From Amsterdam she would proceed to China and India, and, purchasing a cargo of silks and teas, sail for Philadelphia, where the final purchase was sold by the owner for cash or negotiable paper.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney

He had succeeded in engrafting on Harley's Land Bank Bill a clause which empowered the government to issue negotiable paper bearing interest at the rate of threepence a day on a hundred pounds.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron