Terms Used In 13 Guam Code Ann. § 4211

  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
) A collecting bank may take in settlement of an item

(a) A check of the remitting bank or of another bank on any bank except the remitting bank; or

(b) A cashier’s check or similar primary obligation of a remitting bank which is a member of or clears through a member of the same clearinghouse or group as the collecting bank; or

(c) Appropriate authority to charge an account of the remitting bank or of another bank with the collecting bank; or
(d) If the item is drawn upon or payable by a person other than a bank, a cashier’s check, certified check or other bank check or obligation; or

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(e) Credit on the books of any federal reserve bank or of any bank designated as a depositary by the collecting bank; or
(f) Money.

(2) If before its midnight deadline the collecting bank properly dishonors a remittance check or authorization to charge on itself or presents or forwards for collection a remittance instrument of or on another bank which is of a kind approved by subdivision (1) or has not been authorized by it, the collecting bank is not liable to prior parties in the event of the dishonor of such check, instrument or authorization.

(3) A settlement for an item by means of remittance instrument or authorization to charge is or becomes a final settlement as to both the person making and the person receiving the settlement

(a) If the remittance instrument or authorization to charge is of a kind approved by subdivision (1) or has not been authorized by the person receiving the settlement and in either case the person receiving the settlement acts seasonably before its midnight deadline in presenting, forwarding for collection or paying the instrument or authorization — at the time the remittance instrument or authorization is finally paid by the payor by which it is payable;

(b) If the person receiving the settlement has authorized remittance by a nonbank check or obligation or by a cashier’s check or similar primary obligation of or a check upon the payor or other remitting bank which is not of a kind approved by subdivision (1) (b)
— at the time of the receipt of such remittance check or obligation; or

(c) If in a case not covered by paragraphs (a) or (b) the person receiving the settlement fails to seasonably present, forward for collection, pay or return a remittance instrument or authorization to it to charge before its midnight deadline — at such midnight deadline.