Excerpt from Promissory Notes, Bills of Exchange, Cheques and Other Negotiable Instruments: A Reference Book for Business Men and a Text Book for Commercial StudentsA Contract is an agreement by which two or more competent parties mutually promise and engage to give some particular thing, or to do, or abstain from doing some particular act for some good consideration, expressed or implied.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.