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sum certain

sum certain : an amount that can be determined with certainty from

demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified … demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified

Promissory Note

demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified

Insurance

insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an

Debt

Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action … where a person claimed the recovery of a liquidated or certain sum of money affirmed to be due to him; and

Interest

per cent. for the loan or use of some other sum, called the principal. It is distinguished into simple and compound. … is paid for the principal or sum lent, at a certain rate or allowance made by law, or agreement of parties.

Charter-party

a specified voyage, or during a specified period, for a sum of money which the merchant agrees to pay as freight … to the merchant, who is called the charter. There are certain terms usually to be found in all charter-parties, e.g., a

National insurance

Manual by Sir Kingsley Wood and T.S. Newman, and the Summary of the National Health Insurance Acts, published by H.M. Stationery … pay contributions as a voluntary contributor. And there may in certain cases be an 'extended insurance period' of a year; and

Poundage

Poundage, a certain sum deducted from or added to each pound of any sum

Promutuum

Promutuum, a quasi-contract, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, delivered

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