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§ 4A-105. List of definitions

West's Annotated Code of MarylandCommercial LawEffective: June 1, 2012

West's Annotated Code of Maryland
Commercial Law
Title 4a. Funds Transfers (Refs & Annos)
Subtitle 1. Subject Matter and Definitions (Refs & Annos)
Effective: June 1, 2012
MD Code, Commercial Law, § 4A-105
§ 4A-105. List of definitions
(a) In this title:
(1) “Authorized account” means a deposit account of a customer in a bank designated by the customer as a source of payment of payment orders issued by the customer to the bank. If a customer does not so designate an account, any account of the customer is an authorized account if payment of a payment order from that account is not inconsistent with a restriction on the use of that account.
(2) “Bank” means a person engaged in the business of banking and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. A branch or separate office of a bank is a separate bank for purposes of this title.
(3) “Customer” means a person, including a bank, having an account with a bank or from whom a bank has agreed to receive payment orders.
(4) “Funds-transfer business day” of a receiving bank means the part of a day during which the receiving bank is open for the receipt, processing, and transmittal of payment orders and cancellations and amendments of payment orders.
(5) “Funds-transfer system” means a wire transfer network, automated clearing house, or other communication system of a clearing house or other association of banks through which a payment order by a bank may be transmitted to the bank to which the order is addressed.
(6) Reserved.
(7) “Prove” with respect to a fact means to meet the burden of establishing the fact (§ 1-208(b)(8)).
(b) Other definitions applying to this title and the sections in which they appear are:
“Acceptance”
 
 
§ 4A-209
“Beneficiary”
 
 
§ 4A-103
“Beneficiary's bank”
 
 
§ 4A-103
“Executed”
 
 
§ 4A-301
“Execution date”
 
 
§ 4A-301
“Funds transfer”
 
 
§ 4A-104
“Funds-transfer system rule”
 
 
§ 4A-501
“Intermediary bank”
 
 
§ 4A-104
“Originator”
 
 
§ 4A-104
“Originator's bank”
 
 
§ 4A-104
“Payment by beneficiary's bank to beneficiary”
 
 
§ 4A-405
“Payment by originator to beneficiary”
 
 
§ 4A-406
“Payment by sender to receiving bank”
 
 
§ 4A-403
“Payment date”
 
 
§ 4A-401
“Payment order”
 
 
§ 4A-103
“Receiving bank”
 
 
§ 4A-103
“Security procedure”
 
 
§ 4A-201
“Sender”
 
 
§ 4A-103
(c) The following definitions in Title 4 of this article apply to this title:
“Clearing house”
 
 
§ 4-104
“Item”
 
 
§ 4-104
“Suspends payments”
 
 
§ 4-104
(d) In addition, Title 1 of this article contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this title.

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Added by Acts 1991, c. 548, § 1, eff. July 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 2012, c. 673, § 2, eff. June 1, 2012.
MD Code, Commercial Law, § 4A-105, MD COML § 4A-105
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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