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Because in former times, your auto loan came with a payment booklet and in the booklet was a series of "notes", which were slips of paper that contained pertinent information about your auto loan that aided in the recording of said payment, that you sent in with your check for your loan payment.

A similar term for a loan is a "promissory note" which is a signed debt or IOU.

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