BILL-BOOK

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BILL-BOOK, commerce, accounts. One in in which an account is kept of 
  promissory notes, bills of exchange, and other bills payable or receivable: 
  it ought to contain all that a man issues or receives. The book should show 
  the date of the bill, the term it has to run before it becomes due, the 
  names of all the parties to it, and the time of its becoming due, together 
  with the amount for which it was given.