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Definition of Stop payment
1. Noun. A depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stop Payment
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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