restrictive indorsement

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
RESTRICTIVE INDORSEMENT, contracts. One which confines the negotiability of 
a promissory note or bill of exchange, by using express words to that 
effect, as by indorsing it "payable to A,B only." 1 Wash. C. C. 512; 2 
Murph. 138; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1138. 
    

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