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a check that is dishonored on presentation because of insufficient funds
issuing a bad check is a form of larceny
How To Use bad check In A Sentence
- Passing a bad check is a felony.
- He relies on the telephone and on an eye trained by expensive experience to ferret out bad checks.
- He received three concurrent sentences of four and a half years for passing bad checks.
- The list also includes Joe Waldholtz, a con man and husband of former Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz (R-UT) who kited more than a million dollars in bad checks and ended up in prison. Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel
- Banks have historically covered bad checks for valued clients, who were invited to opt in to overdraft protection or to link their checking accounts to savings accounts or to lines of credit.
- issuing a bad check is a form of larceny
- What emerges from this examination is a disturbing portrait of a group of elected officials who routinely avoid payment of debts, write bad checks, abuse their spouses, assault people and openly violate the law. Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel
- After the revelations of Ben Trafford's past track record and including his level of honesty and truthfulness in business dealing, his criminal record for fraud and deceit and deceitful business practices, his swindling of employees and investors and handing out bad checks, I can't regard his comments here as either benignly or well-meaningly fomented. Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
- About the time Carver was recovering from rejection of that story, Samuel Vaughn at Doubleday returned a manuscript of stories.53 Ray asked Lish to take a look at it, noting that he was sticking with his title alas, he does not say what it was after rejecting “for instance, ‘Bad Check, His Mama, and Beautiful Songs.’” Raymond Carver
- Banks have historically covered bad checks for valued clients, who were invited to opt in to overdraft protection or to link their checking accounts to savings accounts or to lines of credit.