Peace through this transition, scrappy.

ita used my words. Peace, peace, peace.

What makes a cheque a cheque? What's the minimum amount of information required to make the piece of paper redeemable for money at a financial institution?

Dunno. But when I took typing in Jr. High, my teacher told us that a check could be as simple as a piece of bark with some writing on it. According to him, a check just needs to tell your bank to give money from your account to the person named on the check. So even a scrap of paper with this minimal info on it would constitute a check.

Of course, with all that fancy computer routing stuff they got these days, I doubt a piece of bark would work.

Fridge was moved. OMGGROSS!

I guess I should clean behind there more than once every 5 years...

Floors triple mopped.

scrappy I am thinking of you and your family. I think I will join sara and light some candles tonight.

Scrappy, I am thinking of you and your family and wishing you peace, as ita said. You are such kind and comforting person here at Buffistas and I hope we can be of some comfort now, to you.

Scrappy... I'm so, so, sorry. What a tragedy. I hope she is at peace, and I hope you and your family can come to peace with this. Much love to you and yours.

I knew this at one time, and not that long ago. I think it just needs the amount it is worth, the account it is drawn on, the account holder's signature, and the payee (or Payable to Bearer, I suppose). It seems to me that I've known someone who has used their pre-printed deposit slips as checks, just wrote Pay to the order of, etc. on them. I don't think your bank is legally obligated to honor that sort of thing if they don't want to, though.

A piece of bark with the routing code and account number on it would work just fine, as long as the teller could read the numbers and key them in rather than scanning it.

I know the problem when the amounts are different, or unclear, is the teller doesn't know what amount to make it. Even though the difference is usually in the cents, it matters. Or did back in dicky-two when I was a bank teller.

I think when I trained as a teller we were told to go by the written out amount in preference to the numerical, though they should, of course, agree, and this was ages ago so I am probably remembering something completely different. But the idea was that the written amount was harder to alter. I don't think it ever came up a a practical matter in my few months experience.

It's been a long time since Negotiable Instruments, but as I recall, a check is simply a written document drawn on a specific bank against funds that have been deposited. The document must state who is to be paid and how much.