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  2. Baker Street robbery - Wikipedia

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    The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up through the floor of the vault.

  3. Smith v Lloyds TSB Group plc - Wikipedia

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    Smith v Lloyds TSB Group plc [2001] QB 541 was a decision of the Court of Appeal relating to the liability of a bank where it makes payment upon a fraudulently altered cheque. The case was a co-joined appeal from one High Court action (by Blofeld J, reported at [2000] 1 WLR 1225) and a County Court action (by Judge Hallgarten QC). [1]

  4. Cheque and Credit Clearing Company - Wikipedia

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    The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company Limited (C&CCC) is a UK membership-based industry body whose 11 members are the UK clearing banks.The company has managed the cheque clearing system in England and Wales since 1985, in all of Great Britain since 1996 when it took over responsibility for managing the Scottish cheque clearing as well, and in the whole of the United Kingdom since the ...

  5. Lloyds Bank - Wikipedia

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    Lloyds Bank plc [1] [4] ... From 1884 to the 1920s, the black horse and the beehive were both used in cheques, until the beehive was dropped. During this period, ...

  6. Cheque guarantee card - Wikipedia

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    The guarantee only applied to cheques drawn on an account provided by the bank that issued the card, and could result in an overdraft with penalty interest on the cardholder. After the introduction of debit cards there was a rapid decline in the use of cheques and of cheque guarantee cards, and these facilities were generally phased out during ...

  7. Crossing of cheques - Wikipedia

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    Like most modern cheques in the UK, the cheque is pre-crossed as printed by the Bank. A crossed cheque is a cheque that has been marked specifying an instruction on the way it is to be redeemed. A common instruction is for the cheque to be deposited directly to an account with a bank and not to be immediately cashed by the holder over the bank ...

  8. Banker's draft - Wikipedia

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    A banker's draft (also called a bank cheque, bank draft in Canada or, in the US, a teller's check) is a cheque (or check) provided to a customer of a bank or acquired from a bank for remittance purposes, that is drawn by the bank, and drawn on another bank or payable through or at a bank. [1]

  9. Cheque - Wikipedia

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    These cheque books became a common format for the distribution of cheques to bank customers. In the late 19th century, several countries formalized laws regarding cheques. The UK passed the Bills of Exchange Act 1882, and India passed the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881; [25] which both covered cheques.