Promissory Note
本票概述
本票(Promissory Note)是一项书面的无条件的支付承诺,由一个人作成,并交给另一人,经制票人签名承诺,即期或定期或在可以确定的将来时间,支付一定数目的金钱给一个特定的人或其指定人或来人。
我国《票据法》对本票的定义,指的是银行本票,指出票人签发的,承诺自己在见票时无条件支付确定金额给收款人或者持票人的票据。
国外票据法,允许企业和个人签发本票,称为一般本票。但在国际贸易中使用的本票,均为银行本票。银行本票都是即期的。一般本票可以是即期的或远期的。
而狭义的外汇中的本票仅指银行本票,不包括商业本票,个人本票。
本票的出票人必须具有支付本票金额的可靠资金来源,并保证支付。
A written, dated and signed two-party instrument containing an unconditional promise by the maker to pay a definite sum of money to a payee on demand or at a specified future date.
The only difference between a promissory note and a bill of exchange is that the maker of a note pays the payee personally, rather than ordering a third party to do so.
When a bank is the maker promising to repay money it has received plus interest, the promissory note is called a certificate of deposit (CD).