bank check
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 77 U.S. 152 - Bank of the Republic v. Millard · 1869Most cited · 181 citing opinions
The right of the depositor is a chose in action, and his check does not transfer the debt, or give a lien upon it to a third person without the assent of the depositary.
How often courts cite the case defining “bank check”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “bank check” — 179 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.