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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

cheque. A written order on a bank, or banker, for payment.on presentmentj Of a certain sum of money to a person therein named, or to him or bearer, or order, — operating, without acceptance, as an appropriation to that amount of money of the drawer on deposit