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y, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South.

Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

ich receives money for safe keeping. -- Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.

In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.

ignated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bil is called the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before accepta…

yed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

A duty payable on commodities by the bushel. [Eng.]

tement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.

laim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand. The demand [is] by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17. He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke.

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note. Burrill.

dum, direction, or the like) on the face of a draft, bill, etc.; as, to enface the words "Payable in Calcutta" upon the face of a draft.

hanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange;…

(bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.

night. -- Fore reading, previous perusal. [Obs.] Hales. -- Fore rent, in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered. -- Fore sheets (Naut.), the forward portion of a rowboat; the space beyond the front thwart. See Stern sheets. -- Fore shore. (a) A bank in advance of a sea wall, to break the force of the surf…

nishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in another, as distinguished from an inland bill, which is one drawn and payable in the same country. In this latter, as well as in several other points of view, the different States of the United States are foreign to eac…

A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.