What is promissory note

<font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">According to the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881,”a promissory note is defined as an instrument in writing (not being a bank note or a currency note), containing an unconditional undertaking signed by the maker, to pay a certain sum of money only to or to the order of a certain person, or to the bearer of the instrument”.</font></font>

This definition mean that when a person gives a promise in writing to pay a certain sum of money unconditionally to a certain person or according to his order the document is called is a promissory note.

<font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Following are the features of a promissory note:</font></font>

• <font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif !important;">It must be in writing</font></font>
• <font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif !important;">It must contain an unconditional promise to pay.</font></font>
• <font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif !important;">The sum payable must be certain.</font></font>
• <font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif !important;">It must be signed by the maker.</font></font>
• <font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif !important;">The maker must sign it.</font></font>
• <font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif !important;">It must be payable to a certain person.</font></font>
• <font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif !important;">It should be properly stamped.</font></font>

<font face="Verdana"><font style="text-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 0px 1px 1px; user-select: initial !important; line-height: 1.5em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A promissory note does not require any acceptance because the maker of the promissory note himself promises to make the payment.</font></font>