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NOTE ( See also: sound (also called a note) is indicated in writing (see MUSICAL NOTATION)
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The See also: term is also applied to an abstract or memorandum of documents, speeches, &c
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This appears to have been first in legal use, especially in the See also: process of the transfer of See also: land by See also: fine and recovery (see FINE)
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Further extensions of this meaning are to an explanation, comment or addition, added in the margin or at the See also: foot of the page to a passage in a See also: book, &c., or to a communication in writing shorter or less formal than a letter
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The ordinary distinction between note and letter is reversed in See also: diplomacy
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See also: Diplomatic notes are written communications exchanged between diplomatic agents or between them and the ministers of See also: foreign affairs of the See also: government to which they are accredited; they differ from ordinary letters in having a more formal character and in dealing with matters of more immediate and definite importance: e.g. the notification of adhesion to a treaty, of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations after a' war, &c
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Sometimes, by agreement, a See also: mere See also: exchange of notes has the force of a See also: convention
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Collective notes are those signed by the representatives of several See also: powers acting in concert
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Some-times identical notes are substituted for collective, i.e. notes identical as to See also: form and substance, but signed and delivered separately by the representatives of the several powers
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Thus in 1822, at the congress of See also: Verona, in See also: order to overcome theobjection of See also: Great Britain to any interference of the See also: European concert in See also: Spain, identical notes were presented to the See also: Spanish government instead of a collective note
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Circular notes are those addressed by one power to the other powers generally, e.g. that addressed by See also: Thiers (See also: November 9, 1870), on the proposed armistice, to the representatives of the great powers accredited to the government of See also: national defence
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Confidential notes are directed to inspiring confidence by giving an explicit account of the views and intentions of the plenipotentiaries and their governments
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Such a note was sent, for instance, by the plenipotentiaries of the allied powers at the See also: conference of See also: Poros, on the 8th of See also: December 1828, to See also: Capo d'See also: Istria, the See also: Greek president, to instruct him confidentially as to the results of their deliberations
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The so-called notes verbales are unsigned, and are merely of the nature of memoranda (of conversations, &c.)
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Notes ad See also: referendum are addressed by diplomatic agents to their own governments asking for .fresh powers to See also: deal with points not covered by their instructions, which they have had to " refer." Diplomatic notes are usually written in the third See also: person; but this See also: rule has not always been observed (see P
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See also: Pradier-Fodere, Cours de droit diplomatique, See also: Paris, 1899; vol. ii. p
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For notes of See also: hand or promissory notes see NEGOTIABLE INSrRUMENTS and See also: BILL OF EXCHANGE, and for notes passing as currency see See also: BANKS AND BANKING, See also: BANK-NOTE and See also: POST
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