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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
Message-ID: <4121@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 May 89 12:49:48 GMT
References: <12810@jade.BBN.COM> <555@lzaz.ATT.COM> <4354@ttidca.TTI.COM> <2893@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <2893@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>, jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
> I don't know about US law, but in Britain you can write a cheque on anything,
> so you couldn't prohibit this.  There has even been a case of a cheque being
> written on the side of a cow and honoured by the bank.

Sounds like an urban legend to me, simply because I've heard the same story
set in the U.S.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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