accommodation maker
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 315 U.S. 447 - D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · 1942Most cited · 4,097 citing opinions
banking
An accommodation maker is not allowed that defense [of no consideration] as against the receiver of the bank and its creditors, or at times even as against the bank itself, where his act contravenes a general policy to protect the institution of banking from such secret agreements.
How often courts cite the case defining “accommodation maker”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “accommodation maker” — 4,062 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.