Definition of Stop payment

1. Noun. A depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check.

Generic synonyms: Order, Purchase Order

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stop Payment

stop cocks
stop codon
stop consonant
stop dead
stop down
stop list
stop lists
stop loss order
stop loss orders
stop motion
stop number
stop off
stop on a dime
stop order
stop over
stop payment (current term)
stop press
stop short
stop sign
stop signs
stop someone in his tracks
stop the car
stop the lights
stop the presses
stop up
stop valve
stop word
stop words
stopband
stopbands

Literary usage of Stop payment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"The subject of this note presupposes that the drawer of the check' has the legal right to stop payment thereof by j notice to the bank upon which it is ..."

2. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"The French ministry stop payment—§ XXXVII. The states-general send over deputies to England—§ XXXVIII. Memorial presented to the States by major-general ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"If this person had been under no obligation to stop payment, but a mere ... It is said that as an Individual Hardy had no right to stop payment on the check ..."

4. History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce by William Schaw Lindsay (1876)
"... 1857 and 1858— Many banks stop payment—Shipowners' Society still attribute their disasters to the repeal of the Navigation Laws—Meeting of Shipowners, ..."

5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1921)
"The day following the receipt of the notice to stop payment, the check was presented to the bank and "in a manner which" the bank's bookkeeper "could not ..."

6. Practical Bank Operation by Loyd Helvetius Langston, First National City Bank of New York (1921)
"The work of caring for stop-payment orders and watching for overdrafts is performed by the ledger bookkeepers themselves, while signatures are verified and ..."

7. Practical Bank Operation by Loyd Helvetius Langston, First National City Bank of New York (1921)
"... alert to avoid paying forged, postdated, antedated, and otherwise irregular checks; also those against which the drawer has filed stop-payment orders. ..."

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