Legal Definition and Related Resources of Overdraft

A term in banking parlance meaning any adverse balance in the customer’s general account whether the balance was created by charging up checks of the customer or debiting past due bills and notes to that account. The resulting debit balance against the customer is called an overdraft. It is the payment by a bank from its funds of a check or draft drawn upon it by a depositor who does not have sufficient funds on deposit to pay the check or draft. American surety Co. v First Nat. Bank, (D.C.W.Va.) 50 F.Supp. 180. under §4- 401(1) of U.C.C., as against its customer, a bank may charge against his account any item which is otherwise properly payable from that account even though the charge creates an overdraft.

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Overdraft in Law Enforcement

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

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