What is "bills of exchange"

Usage examples of "bills of exchange".

I draw upon him for 600,000 francs, my bills are returned unpaid, and, more than that, I hold bills of exchange signed by him to the value of 400,000 francs, payable at his correspondent’.

He was a clever, a too clever, forger of bills of exchange, and was at that precise moment almost permanently employed as orderly in the convict prison at Dartmoor, and might account himself fortunate if he held this easy job for the rest of his twelve years’.

They were nearly all goldsmiths' bills of exchange drawn in favor of certain of the most prominent merchants of New York.

Lord Bellasis won money from me, and to pay him I forged two bills of exchange.

Second, this man, Ascot, must be one of the agents who were supposed to carry the Bills of Exchange to London.

Robbery or larceny of bonds, bills obligatory, bills of exchange, or promissory notes, for the payment of money or tobacco, lottery tickets, paper bills issued in the nature of money, or certificates of loan on the credit of this commonwealth, or of all or any of the United States of America, or inspectors notes for tobacco, shall be punished in the same manner as robbery or larceny of the money or tobacco due on, or represented by such papers.