Definition of Overpayment

1. Noun. A payment larger than needed or expected.

Generic synonyms: Payment
Derivative terms: Overpay

2. Noun. The act of paying too much.
Generic synonyms: Defrayal, Defrayment, Payment
Derivative terms: Overpay

Definition of Overpayment

1. Noun. Payment exceeding the amount actually due ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overpayment

1. [n -S]

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overpayment (current term)
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Literary usage of Overpayment

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

1. The Law of Quasi Contracts by Frederic Campbell Woodward (1913)
"LR 6 CP 405, (overpayment for goods purchased, as result of error in ... 433, (overpayment under mistake as to state of account between two banks); ..."

2. General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted in 1998: Report of the Joint edited by William Roth, Bill Archer (2000)
"Increase in overpayment rate payable to taxpayers other than corporations (sec. ... A taxpayer that overpays its taxes receives interest on the overpayment ..."

3. Sessional Papersby Canada Parliament by Canada Parliament (1901)
"J., overpayment annual drill 24 24 Cancelled B. of E., medals, Fenian Raids . ..' 688 Coté, LP, No. 5 Co., 8!ith Batt 8200 Evans, Lt.-Col., balance cash on ..."

4. Bradbury's Workmen's Compensation and State Insurance Law by Harry Bower Bradbury (1914)
"Offset of overpayment of compensation C. 158. An award for compensation may be enforced by a committal order under the Debtor's Act. Bailey v. ..."

5. Federal Income Tax Problems --1922 by Emerson Emanuel Rossmoore (1922)
"Income tax decreased $2605 " " increased 1425 QUESTION : Net overpayment of income tax $1180 Is the corporation entitled to a refund or credit on account of ..."

6. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Thomas Emerson Headlam (1865)
"Redemption of goods pledged; overpayment ; assignes. It is ordered and decreed, that it be referred to AB, Esquire, Master &.C-, to take an account of what ..."

7. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"659, holding that an overpayment made by mistake may be recovered, and a defense that the payment was made in illegal notes is of no avail. ..."

8. The Law of Banks and Banking: Including Acceptance, Demand and Notice of by John Maxcy Zane (1900)
"overpayment and wrongful payment—If a bank overpays a check it may recover from the person to whom it paid.1 If the bank pays the check to the wrong person, ..."

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