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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

SINGLE.

In contracts. A written unconditional promise by one or more persons to pay to another person or other persons, therein named, a sum of money at a time therein specified. It is usually under seal, and may then be called a "bill obligatory."

2 Serg. & R. <Pa.) 115.

It has no condition attached, and is not given in a penal sum. Comyn, Dig. "Obligation" (C). BILL TO CARRY A DECREE INTO Execution.

In equity practice

One which is filed when, from the neglect of parties, or some other cause, it may become impossible to carry a decree into execution without the further decree of the court.

Hinde, Ch. Pr. 68.