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payment change date

payment change date the date when a new monthly payment amount takes effect on an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) or a graduated-payment mortgage (GPM). Generally, the payment change date occurs in the month immediately after the interest rate adjustment date. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


payment due date

payment due date Contract language specifying when payments are due on money borrowed. The due date is always indicated and means that the payment must be received on or before the specified date. Grace periods prior to assessing a late fee or additional interest do not eliminate the responsibility of making payments on time. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Post-dated cheque

Post-dated cheque, are not invalid, but the banker should not pay such a cheque if presented before the date it bears. If therefore, a cheque dated on a Sunday is presented on the previous business day, it should be returned with the answer post-dated. A post-dated cheque, however, if presented at or after its ostensible date, should be paid though the banker knows it to be post-dated, and even if it has been presented before the date and refused payment, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 3(1), p. 143.Means a cheque must not be post-dated, that is, dated after the day on which it is presented for payment to the drawee branch. Post-dated cheques present for more difficulties to the banker than antedated cheques. There are practical difficulties rather than legal ones ..... But a cheque is generally post-dated because the drawer does not expect to have the funds to meet it until that date arrives. It is a mandate to the banker to the effect that it should not be paid before that...


visa expiration date

visa expiration date The visa expiration date is shown on the visa. This means the visa is valid, or can be used from the date it is issued until the date it expires, for travel for the same purpose, when the visa is issued for multiple entries. This time period from the visa issuance date to visa expiration date as shown on the visa, is called visa validity. If you travel frequently as a tourist for example, with a multiple entry visa, you do not have to apply for a new visa each time you want to travel to the U.S. As an example of travel for the same purpose, if you have a visitor visa, it cannot be used to enter at a later time to study in the U.S. The visa validity is the length of time you are permitted to travel to a port-of-entry in the United States to request permission of the U.S. immigration inspector to permit you to enter the U.S. The visa does not guarantee entry to the U.S. The Expiration Date for the visa should not be confused with the authorized length of your sta...


Ringing the changes

Ringing the changes, a trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to have five apricots for sixpence, gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth, as if to test it by biting, and returning a shilling, said it was a bad one. The buyer gave him a second, which he treated like the first, and returned with the same words, and so with a third shilling. The shillings he returned being bad, this was an uttering of false money, 1 Russ. On Cr., 5th Edn. 231.fraud consisting in offender's using a large banknote to pay for a small purchase; waiting for shopkeeper to put change on counter and then, by a series of maneuvers involving change of mind, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1327....


partial payment

partial payment a payment that is less than the total amount owed on a monthly mortgage payment. Normally, lenders do not accept partial payments. The lender may make exceptions during times of difficulty. Contact your lender prior to the due date if a partial payment is needed. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


adjustment date

adjustment date the actual date that the interest rate is changed for an ARM. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Postponement of Payments Act, 1914 (English)

Postponement of Payments Act, 1914 (English), a temporary Act expiring six months from the date of its passing (3rd August, 1914), and empowering His Majesty by Proclamation to postpone payment of bills of exchange and payments in pursuance of other obligations. Under this Act a 'moratorium' was at once proclaimed on the outbreak of the war with Germany, and subsequently renewed until 4th November, 1914, when it finally expired....


late payment charges

late payment charges the penalty the homeowner must pay when a mortgage payment is made after the due date grace period. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Preferential payments

Preferential payments, in bankruptcy, administra-tion of estates of persons dying insolvent, and winding up of a company:-One year's rates and taxes, four months' salaries of clerks up to fifty pounds, and two months' wages of labourers or workmen, up to twenty-five pounds (labourers in husbandry paid partly in a lump sum at the end of the year of hiring to have the whole or proportionate part of that sum). Also sums due under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, the National Insurance Acts (Health and Unemployment and Contributory Pensions). These debts rank equally between them unless the assets are insufficient, in which case they are to abate in equal proportions. By the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (see s. 34), the preference was extended to apprentices. See the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 33, and the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 264, by which these debts are directed to be paid in priority to all others; and by s. 264 (4) (b) of the Companies Act, 1929, these debts are ...


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