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7-3-103
Section 7-3-103 Definitions. (a) In this article: (1) "Acceptor" means a drawee who
has accepted a draft. (2) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment.
(3) "Drawer" means a person who signs or is identified in a draft as a person ordering
payment. (4) "Good faith" means honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned.
(5) "Maker" means a person who signs or is identified in a note as a person undertaking
to pay. (6) "Order" means a written instruction to pay money signed by the person
giving the instruction. The instruction may be addressed to any person, including the person
giving the instruction, or to one or more persons jointly or in the alternative but not in
succession. An authorization to pay is not an order unless the person authorized to pay is
also instructed to pay. (7) "Ordinary care" in the case of a person engaged in business
means observance of reasonable commercial standards, prevailing in the area in which the person
is located, with respect...
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7-3-501
Section 7-3-501 Presentment. (a) "Presentment" means a demand made by or on behalf
of a person entitled to enforce an instrument (i) to pay the instrument made to the drawee
or a party obliged to pay the instrument or, in the case of a note or accepted draft payable
at a bank, to the bank, or (ii) to accept a draft made to the drawee. (b) The following rules
are subject to Article 4, agreement of the parties, and clearing-house rules and the like:
(1) Presentment may be made at the place of payment of the instrument and must be made at
the place of payment if the instrument is payable at a bank in the United States; may be made
by any commercially reasonable means, including an oral, written, or electronic communication;
is effective when the demand for payment or acceptance is received by the person to whom presentment
is made; and is effective if made to any one of two or more makers, acceptors, drawees, or
other payors. (2) Upon demand of the person to whom presentment is made, the...
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7-3-104
Section 7-3-104 Negotiable instrument. (a) Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d), "negotiable
instrument" means an unconditional promise or order to pay a fixed amount of money, with
or without interest or other charges described in the promise or order, if it: (1) Is payable
to bearer or to order at the time it is issued or first comes into possession of a holder;
(2) Is payable on demand or at a definite time; and (3) Does not state any other undertaking
or instruction by the person promising or ordering payment to do any act in addition to the
payment of money, but the promise or order may contain (i) an undertaking or power to give,
maintain, or protect collateral to secure payment, (ii) an authorization or power to the holder
to confess judgment or realize on or dispose of collateral, or (iii) a waiver of the benefit
of any law intended for the advantage or protection of an obligor. (b) "Instrument"
means a negotiable instrument. (c) An order that meets all of the...
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7-4-104
Section 7-4-104 Definitions and index of definitions. (a) In this article, unless the context
otherwise requires: (1) "Account" means any deposit or credit account with a bank,
including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account
evidenced by a certificate of deposit; (2) "Afternoon" means the period of a day
between noon and midnight; (3) "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a
bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions; (4)
"Clearing house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing
items; (5) "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a
bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;
(6) "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment
if specified documents, certificated securities (Section 7-8-102) or instructions for uncertificated
securities (Section 7-8-308), or...
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7-9A-102
term includes: (A) proceeds to which a security interest attaches; (B) accounts, chattel paper,
payment intangibles, and promissory notes that have been sold; and (C) goods that are the
subject of a consignment. (13) "Commercial tort claim" means a claim arising in
tort with respect to which: (A) the claimant is an organization; or (B) the claimant is an
individual and the claim: (i) arose in the course of the claimant's business or profession;
and (ii) does not include damages arising out of personal injury to or the death
of an individual. (14) "Commodity account" means an account maintained by a commodity
intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity customer. (15) "Commodity
contract" means a commodity futures contract, an option on a commodity futures contract,
a commodity option, or another contract if the contract or option is: (A) traded on or subject
to the rules of a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market for such a
contract...
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7-1-201
in size than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding
text of the same or lesser size; and (B) Language in the body of a record or display in larger
type than the surrounding text, or in contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding
text of the same size, or set off from surrounding text of the same size by symbols or other
marks that call attention to the language. (11) "Consumer" means an individual who
enters into a transaction primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. (12)
"Contract," as distinguished from "agreement," means the total legal obligation
that results from the parties' agreement as determined by this title as supplemented by any
other applicable laws. (13) "Creditor" includes a general creditor, a secured creditor,
a lien creditor, and any representative of creditors, including an assignee for the benefit
of creditors, a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver in equity, and an executor or administrator
of an...
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35-12-72
or its agent. c. Property not subject to paragraphs a. or b. within two years of the distribution
shall remain reportable under other sections of this article. (12) Property received by a
court as proceeds of a class action, and not distributed pursuant to the judgment, one year
after the distribution date. (13) Property held by a court, government, governmental subdivision,
agency, or instrumentality, one year after the property becomes distributable. (14) Wages
or other compensation for personal services, one year after the compensation becomes
payable. (15) Deposit or refund owed to a subscriber by a utility, one year after the deposit
or refund becomes payable. (16) Any check, warrant, debit card, or other payment instrument
drawn on or issued by the State of Alabama, outstanding and unpaid within the time frame allowed
under Section 41-4-60. (17) Gift certificate, other than those exempt under Section 35-12-73,
three years after June 30 of the year in which the certificate was...
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7-5-102
an item of value. Unless the letter of credit otherwise provides, "honor" occurs:
(i) upon payment, (ii) if the letter of credit provides for acceptance, upon acceptance of
a draft and, at maturity, its payment, or (iii) if the letter of credit provides for incurring
a deferred obligation, upon incurring the obligation and, at maturity, its performance. (9)
"Issuer" means a bank or other person that issues a letter of credit, but does not
include an individual who makes an engagement for personal, family, or household purposes.
(10) "Letter of credit" means a definite undertaking that satisfies the requirements
of Section 7-5-104 by an issuer to a beneficiary at the request or for the account of an applicant
or, in the case of a financial institution, to itself or for its own account, to honor a documentary
presentation by payment or delivery of an item of value. (11) "Nominated person"
means a person whom the issuer (i) designates or authorizes to pay, accept, negotiate, or...
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5-20-3
Section 5-20-3 Definitions. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the purposes of
this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings prescribed by this section: (1)
ALABAMA BANK. A bank which is organized under the laws of this state or of the United States
and which has its principal place of business in this state. (2) BANK. Any "insured bank"
as such term is defined in Section 3(h) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 U.S.C. §1813(h).
(3) BANK HOLDING COMPANY. Any company which is a bank holding company under the Bank Holding
Company Act of 1956, as amended, 12 U.S.C. §1841(a). (4) CREDIT CARD. Any type of arrangement
or agreement pursuant to which any domestic lender or credit card bank, whether directly or
indirectly through any domestic lender acting as its agent, gives a debtor the privilege of
using a credit card or other credit confirmation, device or instrument of any type in transactions
out of which debt arises: a. By the domestic lender or credit...
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26-1A-208
institution, including renting a safe deposit box or space in a vault; (4) withdraw, by check,
order, electronic funds transfer, or otherwise, money or property of the principal deposited
with or left in the custody of a financial institution; (5) receive statements of account,
vouchers, notices, and similar documents from a financial institution and act with respect
to them; (6) enter a safe deposit box or vault and withdraw or add to the contents; (7) borrow
money and pledge as security personal property of the principal necessary to borrow
money or pay, renew, or extend the time of payment of a debt of the principal or a debt guaranteed
by the principal; (8) make, assign, draw, endorse, discount, guarantee, and negotiate promissory
notes, checks, drafts, and other negotiable or nonnegotiable paper of the principal or payable
to the principal or the principal's order, transfer money, receive the cash or other proceeds
of those transactions, and accept a draft drawn by a person upon...
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