Acknowledgments
1. A Very Short Introduction
2. Negotiability
3. Parties to the Instrument
4. The Underlying Transaction (and “Paid in Full”)
5. Enforcement of a Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Instrument—and the PETE
6. Liability on the Instrument (Signers Promise to Pay the PETE)
7. Defenses, Discharge, and Claims to the Instrument
8. The Holder in Due Course
9. The Rights of a Holder in Due Course (It’s Good to Be One)
10. Theft, Forgery, Alteration—Warranties
11. The Validation Rules: Beware the Bookkeeper, the Impostor, and Yourself
12. Conversion (Took from or Paid to a Non-PETE)
13. Guarantors, aka Accommodation Parties
14. The Properly Payable Menu, Subrogation, and the Bank Statement Rule
15. Collection and Funds Availability Duties of Depositary Bank: Show Me the Money
16. Wrongful Dishonor
17. Check Payment (The Tale of the Midnight Deadline)
18. Truncation and Electronic Processing of Checks
19. Credit Cards: Policy Issues
20. Credit Cards: Unauthorized Use and Errors
21. Credit Cards: Consumer Buyer Protections
22. Debit Cards and Other Consumer Wire Transfers: The Electronic Funds Transfer Act
23. Commercial Wire Transfers
24. Commercial Wire Transfers: Errors and Fraud
25. Letters of Credit
26. Closing Closers
Index