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  • Promissory estoppel: doctrine under which a promise to act may be enforced as a contract if the person to whom the promise was made took an anticipated action in response to the promise.

    Define That Term #316 2009

  • Promissory notes still require an endorsement and delivery from the current owner to the next owner in order to change the beneficial ownership of a mortgage loan.

    L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud: MERS's Smoking Gun, Part I L. Randall Wray 2010

  • So did John W. Langley, a bone-dry congressman of expansive girth and melodious diction who was known in his eastern Kentucky district as either “Promissory John” or “Pork Barrel John,” for the vows he made to his constituents and for his ability to fulfill them.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • So did John W. Langley, a bone-dry congressman of expansive girth and melodious diction who was known in his eastern Kentucky district as either “Promissory John” or “Pork Barrel John,” for the vows he made to his constituents and for his ability to fulfill them.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Wonder if his wife made him sign a Promissory Note.

    McCain raises $21.5 million in May 2008

  • Promissory notes are not science and we are not forbidden from an inference in the hopes that some other explanation will pop its head up one day.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Promissory notes held the commissioners in Washington at bay for a time, but they soon began to demand that Morris and Nicholson make their payments in hard money.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Promissory notes still require an endorsement and delivery from the current owner to the next owner in order to change the beneficial ownership of a mortgage loan.

    L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud: MERS's Smoking Gun, Part I L. Randall Wray 2010

  • Promissory notes held the commissioners in Washington at bay for a time, but they soon began to demand that Morris and Nicholson make their payments in hard money.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Promissory notes still require an endorsement and delivery from the current owner to the next owner in order to change the beneficial ownership of a mortgage loan.

    L. Randall Wray: Anatomy of Mortgage Fraud: MERS's Smoking Gun, Part I L. Randall Wray 2010

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