Syfert Injury Law Firm

Your Trusted Partner in Personal Injury & Workers' Compensation

Call Now: 904-383-7448
O.C.G.A. § 11-3-411 — Refusal to pay cashier's checks, teller's checks, and certified checks | Georgia Code
O.C.G.A. § 11-3-411 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 11 COMMERCIAL CODE

Section 3. Negotiable Instruments, 11-3-101 through 11-3-605.

ARTICLE 3 NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS

11-3-411. Refusal to pay cashier's checks, teller's checks, and certified checks.

  1. In this Code section, "obligated bank" means the acceptor of a certified check or the issuer of a cashier's check or teller's check bought from the issuer.
  2. If the obligated bank wrongfully (i) refuses to pay a cashier's check or certified check; (ii) stops payment of a teller's check; or (iii) refuses to pay a dishonored teller's check, the person asserting the right to enforce the check is entitled to compensation for expenses and loss of interest resulting from the nonpayment and may recover consequential damages if the obligated bank refuses to pay after receiving notice of particular circumstances giving rise to the damages.
  3. Expenses or consequential damages under subsection (b) of this Code section are not recoverable if the refusal of the obligated bank to pay occurs because (i) the bank suspends payments; (ii) the obligated bank asserts a claim or defense of the bank that it has reasonable grounds to believe is available against the person entitled to enforce the instrument; (iii) the obligated bank has a reasonable doubt whether the person demanding payment is the person entitled to enforce the instrument; or (iv) payment is prohibited by law.

(Code 1981, §11-3-411, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1306, § 3.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Bank properly refused to pay cashier's check.

- Trial court did not err in granting summary judgment to a bank because the bank acted properly in refusing to honor the cashier's check since the funds were the property of the payee and were within the control of the bank at the time the bank received the garnishment order; thus, O.C.G.A. § 18-4-4 required that the bank pay those funds into the court in the garnishment action and not to the payee. Burrowes v. Bank of Am., N.A., 340 Ga. App. 248, 797 S.E.2d 493 (2017).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

U.L.A.

- Uniform Commercial Code (U.L.A.) § 3-411.

Database error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 8 attempt to write a readonly database

This Georgia Code resource is curated by Graham Syfert, a personal injury and workers' compensation attorney admitted in Georgia (State Bar of Georgia No. 881027, since 2006) and Florida. For legal consultation, call 904-383-7448.