Terms Used In Michigan Laws 440.4901

  • Bank: means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. See Michigan Laws 440.4605
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Beneficiary: means the person to be paid by the beneficiary's bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4603
  • Payment order: means an instruction of a sender to a receiving bank, transmitted orally, electronically, or in writing, to pay, or to cause another bank to pay, a fixed or determinable amount of money to a beneficiary if the following apply:
    (i) The instruction does not state a condition to payment to the beneficiary other than time of payment. See Michigan Laws 440.4603
  • Sender: means the person giving the instruction to the receiving bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4603
  •      “Payment date” of a payment order means the day on which the amount of the order is payable to the beneficiary by the beneficiary‘s bank. The payment date may be determined by instruction of the sender but cannot be earlier than the day the order is received by the beneficiary’s bank and, unless otherwise determined, is the day the order is received by the beneficiary’s bank.