An individual, usually a woman, would fall into a kind of wasting illness, until her relatives agreed to "hire, for a certain sum of money, a band of trumpeters, drummers, and fifers, and buy a quantity of liquor; then all the young men and women of the place assemble at the patient's house," where they dance and generally party for days, invariably effecting a cure.
You would pay them dollars (or whatever currency) for a certain sum of Liberty Reserves, which they would then deposit into your account.
Judaism, Christianity, and many other religions practice some form of tithing, or donating a certain sum of money (often 10% of your income) to the church to which they belong.[2] While tithing is celebrated by some as good practice, it is derided by others, or at least complicated.[3].
A leader is told that his area must achieve a certain rate of GDP growth, attract a certain sum of inward investment and increase government revenues by a specified amount.
Of course, you have to leave a certain sum of money for your instructions to be taken seriously.
From the reign of Philip II (1556 98), the decisions of audiencias were final, except when the death penalty was decreed or in civil cases when the amount of money involved exceeded a certain sum.
And, generally, no court enforces oral agreements of any kind above a certain sum.
That is why experts, such as Jerry H. Goldfeder, an election lawyer at Stroock, Stroock and Lavan LLP, have suggested that we allow candidates to pay a modest fee to get on the ballot or allow a candidate's name on the ballot if he or she "has raised a certain sum of money from a designated number of voters in a particular district".
It has been defined in England as an unconditional order in writing addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it (the drawer), and requiring the person to whom it is addressed (the drawee) to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a certain sum of money to, or to the order of, a specified person (the payee) or to the bearer.
