Definition of Bad cheque

1. Noun. A check that is dishonored on presentation because of insufficient funds. "Issuing a bad check is a form of larceny"

Exact synonyms: Bad Check
Generic synonyms: Bank Check, Check, Cheque

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bad Cheque

bad-tempered
bad apple
bad apples
bad bank
bad banks
bad beat
bad beats
bad block
bad blood
bad boy
bad boys
bad breath
bad cess
bad check
bad checks
bad cheque (current term)
bad condition
bad debt
bad debts
bad egg
bad eggs
bad ending
bad endings
bad eye
bad fairy
bad faith
bad form
bad girl
bad girls
bad guy

Literary usage of Bad cheque

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By the Right Hon by James Lewis Knight Bruce, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1845)
"... was a bad cheque, and require 1845. it to be stamped as a bill of exchange. Now, it is in evidence for what purpose the word " Lutterworth" was printed ..."

2. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: With Notes and by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1851)
"... though not in a formal manner, the Court 'would [ * ] be reluctant to say it was a bad cheque, and require it to be stamped as a bill of exchange. ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius: In the Courts of Queen's by Frederick Augustus Carrington, Andrew Valentine Kirwan, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1845)
"You may get rid of the first by its being a bad cheque, but how can you get rid of the other ? WC Rowe.—It appeared to me that the effect of converting the ..."

4. A Selection of Cases Illustrative of English Criminal Law by Courtney Stanhope Kenny (1901)
"You may get rid of the first by its being a bad cheque; but how can you get rid of the other 1 WC Rowe. It appeared to me that the effect of converting the ..."

5. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1895)
"... but that, as the loss which would otherwise fall on the banker, who had paid on a bad cheque, had been brought about by the negligence of the customer, ..."

6. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1881)
"... have fallen on the banker, who had paid on a bad cheque, had been brought about by the negligence of the customer, the latter must sustain the loss. ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined: V. 1-6; 1864-69 by Victoria Supreme Court, Alfred Wyatt (1867)
"The friend received the money under the first cheque, and after the death paid the bad cheque to the wife, by substituting a good one. ..."

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