§ 4-103 Variation by Agreement; Measure of Damages; Action Constituting Ordinary Care
§ 4-102 Applicability
§ 4-214 Right of Charge–Back or Refund; Liability of Collecting Bank; Return of Item
§ 4-215 Final Payment of Item by Payor Bank; When Provisional Debits and Credits Become Final; When Certain Credits Become Available for Withdrawal
§ 4-216 Insolvency and Preference
§ 4-301 Deferred Posting; Recovery of Payment by Return of Items; Time of Dishonor; Return of Items by Payor Bank
§ 4-302 Payor Bank’s Responsibility for Late Return of Item
§ 4-303 When Items Subject to Notice, Stop-Payment Order, Legal Process, or Setoff; Order in Which Items may be Charged or Certified
§ 4-401 When Bank May Charge Customer’s Account
§ 4-402 Bank’s Liability to Customer for Wrongful Dishonor; Time of Determining Insufficiency of Account
§ 4-403 Customer’s Right to Stop Payment; Burden of Proof of Loss
§ 4-404 Bank Not Obliged to Pay Check More Than Six Months Old
§ 4-405 Death or Incompetence of Customer
§ 4-406 Customer’s Duty to Discover and Report Unauthorized Signature or Alteration
§ 4-407 Payor Bank’s Right to Subrogation on Improper Payment
§ 4-501 Handling of Documentary Drafts; Duty to Send for Presentment and to Notify Customer of Dishonor
§ 4-502 Presentment of ”On Arrival” Drafts
§ 4-503 Responsibility of Presenting Bank for Documents and Goods; Report of Reasons for Dishonor; Referee in Case of Need
§ 4-504 Privilege of Presenting Bank to Deal with Goods; Security Interest for Expenses
§ 4-213 Medium and Time of Settlement by Bank
§ 4-101 Short Title
§ 4-212 Presentment by Notice of Item not Payable by, through, or at Bank; Liability of Drawer or Indorser
§ 4-210 Security Interest of Collecting Bank in Items, Accompanying Documents and Proceeds
§ 4-104 Definitions and Index of Definitions
§ 4-105 Bank; Depositary Bank; Payor Bank; Intermediary Bank; Collecting Bank; Presenting Bank
§ 4-106 Payable Through or Payable at Bank; Collecting Bank
§ 4-107 Separate Office of Bank
§ 4-108 Time of Receipt of Items
§ 4-109 Delays
§ 4-110 Electronic Presentment
§ 4-111 Statute of Limitations
§ 4-201 Status of Collecting Bank as Agent and Provisional Status of Credits; Applicability of Article; Item Indorsed Pay Any Bank
§ 4-202 Responsibility for Collection or Return; When Action Timely
§ 4-203 Effect of Instructions
§ 4-204 Methods of Sending and Presenting; Sending Direct to Payor Bank
§ 4-205 Depositary Bank Holder of Unindorsed Item
§ 4-206 Transfer Between Banks
§ 4-207 Transfer Warranties
§ 4-208 Presentment Warranties
§ 4-209 Encoding and Retention Warranties
§ 4-211 When Bank Gives Value for Purposes of Holder in Due Course

Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws > Chapter 106 > Article 4 - Bank Deposits and Collections

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Interests: includes any form of membership in a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • 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.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • 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.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC