Arizona Laws > Title 47 > Chapter 4 > Article 2 – Collection of Items; Depositary and Collecting Banks
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- 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. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- 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. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Clearing house: means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- 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. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Documentary draft: means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (section 47-8102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (section 47-8102) or other certificates, statements or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Draft: means a draft as defined in section 47-3104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Arizona Laws 47-4104
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.