Iowa Code 554.3602 – Payment
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 554.3602
- Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
554.3602 Payment.
1. Subject to subsection 2, an instrument is paid to the extent payment is made by or
on behalf of a party obliged to pay the instrument, and to a person entitled to enforce the instrument. To the extent of the payment, the obligation of the party obliged to pay the instrument is discharged even though payment is made with knowledge of a claim to the instrument under § 554.3306 by another person.
2. The obligation of a party to pay the instrument is not discharged under subsection 1 if: a. a claim to the instrument under § 554.3306 is enforceable against the party receiving payment and payment is made with knowledge by the payor that payment is prohibited by injunction or similar process of a court of competent jurisdiction, or in the case of an instrument other than a cashier’s check, teller’s check, or certified check, the party making payment accepted, from the person having a claim to the instrument, indemnity
against loss resulting from refusal to pay the person entitled to enforce the instrument; or
b. the person making payment knows that the instrument is a stolen instrument and pays a person it knows is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
94 Acts, ch 1167, §74, 121, 122; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §261
Referred to in §554.3103
1. Subject to subsection 2, an instrument is paid to the extent payment is made by or
on behalf of a party obliged to pay the instrument, and to a person entitled to enforce the instrument. To the extent of the payment, the obligation of the party obliged to pay the instrument is discharged even though payment is made with knowledge of a claim to the instrument under § 554.3306 by another person.
2. The obligation of a party to pay the instrument is not discharged under subsection 1 if: a. a claim to the instrument under § 554.3306 is enforceable against the party receiving payment and payment is made with knowledge by the payor that payment is prohibited by injunction or similar process of a court of competent jurisdiction, or in the case of an instrument other than a cashier’s check, teller’s check, or certified check, the party making payment accepted, from the person having a claim to the instrument, indemnity
against loss resulting from refusal to pay the person entitled to enforce the instrument; or
b. the person making payment knows that the instrument is a stolen instrument and pays a person it knows is in wrongful possession of the instrument.
94 Acts, ch 1167, §74, 121, 122; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §261
Referred to in §554.3103