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Definition of Counterfoil
1. Noun. The part of a check that is retained as a record.
Definition of Counterfoil
1. n. That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock.
Definition of Counterfoil
1. Noun. the part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record; a stub ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counterfoil
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterfoil
Literary usage of Counterfoil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"The letter shows the book in which the counterfoil is to be found, and the number
shows the position, of the counterfoil in that book. ..."
2. Excelsior by James Hamilton (1854)
"THE CHEQUE AND THE counterfoil. A LESSON IN THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE. COMING home
a ship's company describes a remarkable scene which it has witnessed in the ..."
3. Rogers on Elections by Francis James Newman Rogers, C. Willoughby Williams (1906)
"The Court held that the missing counterfoil was the counterfoil of the surplus
ballot paper, and that the latter recorded the vote of the voter in question ..."
4. The Canada Law Journalby William S. Hein & Company by William S. Hein & Company (1878)
"In шт opinion the Deputy Returning Officer committed a grave error in omitting
to tear off the counterfoil ; although I am satisfied that it was an ..."
5. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1868)
"This is one of the counterfoil books of the company (produced). On the 16th of
August there is a counterfoil of a cheque. Coleridge, QC, objected to the ..."
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