Note
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
n.
1.
A brief, informal statement in writing; a memorandum.
2.
A negotiable promise for payment of monev; a promissory rote, or rote of hand. A bequest by a testator of " all his notes of hand " includes promissory notes, properly speaking, single bills, and bonds. The term note of hand is a name given generally by the unlearned, in common, to all those evidences of debts which are verified under the hand of the debtor, and which the creditor keeps. It is not an apt legal term to describe a debt or a judgment, nor is it ever used in that sense as its popular one. Perry v. Maxwell, 2 Dev. Eg. 488. the state law reports, comprises the reporter's summary of the points decided by the court,, and his statement of the argument of counsel. Abstracts of the pleadings and the statements of facts, which, from the. basis of the decisions reported, are neither "notes" nor "references." The "notes and references " intended by the act do not embrace such original notes and references as the reporter may see fit, of his own accord, to superadd to what would otherwise be, in themselves, complete reports of the cases reported by him. Little o.
Gould, 2 Bleach/. 165, 180.