Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 25 > Chapter 1 > Article 7 - Commissioned and Warranted Officers - Army National Guard

• 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 (§ 36-8-102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (§ 36-8-102), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft;
  
  (7) "Draft" means a draft as defined in § 36-3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order;
  
  (8) "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;
  
  (9) "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See South Carolina Code 36-4-104
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.