[net.misc] What a Check can be written on

rcj (01/12/83)

The law concerning what a check can be written on is this:

There ain't no law (that I know of).

The rule of thumb has always been that you may write a check on anything
that you can get a bank to accept.  I have heard two news stories in
particular over the years on this subject.  One involved a check written
on a piece of tree bark (accepted, no problem).  The other involved a
dispute between two farmers, and one farmer wrote the other a check on
the back of a pig.  The banker was eventually persuaded to come out to
the farm and cancell the pig on the spot using the regular bank stamp.

The MAD Programmer
alias:  Curtis Jackson	(...!floyd!burl!rcj)