banker's acceptances

banker's acceptances
In the broad sense, acceptances of bills of exchange by banks; in the technical and peculiar sense of the banking business, extensions of credit by acceptances of bills of exchange. Atterbury v Bank of Washington Heights, 241 NY 231, 239.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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