promissory note

In the case of federal student loans, a borrower signs a promissory note agreeing to pay back the government and, ultimately, the taxpayers.

An unpaid promissory note is an executory contract, when paid it becomes an executed one.

If she will not, and if the promissory note should fall in my way, my revenge will doubtless take total possession of me.

It is thus "a human document" of considerable value, as well as a promissory note of future performance.

In that event Mrs. Arnold's promissory note to Rabofsky would be worth no more than the value of the securities he held.

In the case at bar, the defendant has given his promissory note to pay the plaintiff a sum of money on or before a certain day.