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e. A cheque ( British English) is a document that orders a bank, building society (or credit union) to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing the cheque, known as the drawer, has a transaction banking account (often called a current, cheque, chequing ...
Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.
A cashier's check(or cashier's cheque, cashier's order, official check; in Canada, the term bank draftis used[1], not to be confused with Banker's draftas used in the United States) is a checkguaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own funds and signed by a bank employee.[2] Cashier's checks are treated as guaranteed funds because the bank ...
Coutts & Co. traveller's cheque, for 2 pounds. Issued in London, 1970s. Langmead Collection. On display at the British Museum in London. Traveller's cheques were first issued on 1 January 1772 by the London Credit Exchange Company for use in 90 European cities, [1] and in 1874, Thomas Cook was issuing "circular notes" that operated in the manner of traveller's cheques.
A dishonoured cheque (also spelled check) is a cheque that the bank on which it is drawn declines to pay (“honour”). There are a number of reasons why a bank might refuse to honour a cheque, with non-sufficient funds ( NSF) being the most common one, indicating that there are insufficient cleared funds in the account on which the cheque was ...
Under American law, a blank cheque is an example of an " incomplete instrument " as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code 's Article 3, Section 115 (a). [1] Writing an amount in a blank cheque, without the authority of the signer, is an "alteration". [2] It is legally equivalent to changing the numbers on a completed (non-blank) cheque.
A crossed cheque generally is a cheque that only bears two parallel transverse lines, optionally with the words 'and company' or '& Co.' (or any abbreviation of them) [clarification needed] on the face of the cheque, between the lines, usually at the top left corner or at any place in the approximate half (in width) of the cheque. [2] In the UK ...
In banking, a post-dated cheque is a cheque written by the drawer (payer) [1] for a date in the future. Whether a post-dated cheque may be cashed or deposited before the date written on it depends on the country. A Canadian bank, for example, is not supposed to process a post-dated cheque and if it does so by mistake, the cheque writer may ask ...