Terms Used In Michigan Laws 440.4955

  • 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
  • Customer: means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders. See Michigan Laws 440.4605
  • 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
  • Receiving bank: means the bank to which the sender's instruction is addressed. See Michigan Laws 440.4603
  • Sender: means the person giving the instruction to the receiving bank. See Michigan Laws 440.4603
  •    If a receiving bank has received payment from its customer with respect to a payment order issued in the name of the customer as sender and accepted by the bank, and the customer received notification reasonably identifying the order, the customer is precluded from asserting that the bank is not entitled to retain the payment unless the customer notifies the bank of the customer’s objection to the payment within 1 year after the notification was received by the customer.