Goldsmiths' Notes
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Bankers' cash notes (i. e., promissory notes given by a banker to his customers as acknowledgments of the receipt of money) were originally called in London "goldsmiths' notes," from the circumstance that all the banking business in England was originally transacted by goldsmiths. Wharton.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In English law. called, because the bankers of London
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Bankers’ cash notes (7. e., promissory notes given by a banker to his customers as acknowledgments of the receipt of money) were originally called in London “goldsmiths’ notes,” from the circumstance that all the banking business in England was originally transacted by goldsmiths. Wharton.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Bankers' notes.