unindorsed

The unquestionable right of the banker to summarily debit his customer's account with a returned cheque, even when unindorsed by the customer and taken by the banker in circumstances constituting him a transferee of the instrument, is probably referable to a custom of this nature.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

If I get from a bankrupt unindorsed composition notes,

Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905

At that hour he had lent the quartermaster fifteen thousand dollars on his unindorsed note of hand, on condition that no proceedings whatever should be taken against Mr. Dean, Folsom guaranteeing that every _amende_ should be made that fair arbitration could possibly dictate.

Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. Charles King 1888

Ordered, That the treasurer be directed to receive a bill of credit of ten shillings on the late colony of the Massachusets Bay, unindorsed, and give to M r Nath 11 - Blagrove a bill of this province of the like value.

Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

I simply put them away in my safe and forget about them, which if a bankrupt ever paid his unindorsed composition notes he would be adding murder to his other crimes on account the holders of such composition notes would drop dead from astonishment. "

Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905