Legal Definition and Related Resources of Cheque

A cheque is a bill of exchange (q.v.) drawn on a banker, payable on demand (Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 73). The person making the cheque is called the drawer, and the person to whom it is payable is called the payee. When the cheque bears across its face the words ” and Company,” or any abbreviation thereof, between two parallel transverse lines, it is said to be crossed generally, and when it bears across its face the name of a banker, it is said to be crossed specially. (Section 76.) A generally crossed cheque can be paid only through a bank, and a specially crossed cheque only through the bank specified. A holder of a cheque crossed ” not negotiable ” cannot give a transferee a better title than he himself has. (Section 81.) See London Joint Stock Bank v. Mcwmillan

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Cheque in Historical Law

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Cheque in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of cheque.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Officer
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• cheque in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• cheque in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Cheque

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Cheque :

A *bill of exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand. Since a cheque is payable on demand it need not be presented to the drawee bank for acceptance. A cheque operates as a mandate or order to the drawee bank to pay and debit the account of its customer, the drawer. The Cheques Act 1992 gave legal force to the words “account payee” on cheques, making them nontransferable.

Hierarchical Display of Cheque

Finance > Monetary economics > Money market > Money > Deposit money
Finance > Monetary economics > Money market > Banking > Bank charges

Meaning of Cheque

Overview and more information about Cheque

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Translation of Cheque

• Spanish: Cheque
• French: Chèque
• German: Scheck
• Italian: Assegno
• Portuguese: Cheque
• Polish: Czek

Thesaurus of Cheque

Finance > Monetary economics > Money market > Money > Deposit money > Cheque
Finance > Monetary economics > Money market > Banking > Bank charges > Cheque

See also

• Bank charges