2020 Arkansas Code
Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law
Subtitle 5 - Contracts, Notes, and Other Commercial Instruments
Chapter 60 - Checks
§ 4-60-101. Definitions

Universal Citation: AR Code § 4-60-101 (2020)

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1. (1) “Check” means a written unconditional order to pay a sum certain in money drawn on a bank payable on demand and signed by the drawer;

  2. (2) “Drawee” means the bank or purported bank upon which a check is drawn;

  3. (3) “Drawer” means a person, either real or fictitious, whose name appears on a check as the primary obligor, whether the actual signature is that of himself or herself or a person authorized to draw the check in his or her behalf; and

  4. (4) “Issue” means make, draw, deliver, or pass a check.

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