Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 4 > Subchapter B – 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 Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
- Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
- 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 Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- Clearing house: means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
- 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 Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- 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 Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- Draft: means a draft as defined in Section Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- Item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 4.104
- 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.
- Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
- Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- 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.
- Signature: includes the mark of a person unable to write, and "subscribe" includes the making of such a mark. See Texas Government Code 312.011
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005