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...Subject to Chapter 1303. of the Revised Code concerning conversion of instruments and restrictive indorsements, only a collecting bank's transferor can give instructions that affect the bank or constitute notice to it and a collecting bank is not liable to prior parties for any action taken pursuant to the instructions or in accordance with any agreement with its transferor.

...(A) A collecting bank shall send items by a reasonably prompt method taking into consideration relevant instructions, the nature of the item, the number of those items on hand, the cost of collection involved, and the method generally used by it or others to present those items. (B) A collecting bank may do any of the following: (1) Send an item directly to the payor bank; (2) Send an item to a non-bank payor if a...

...If a customer delivers an item to a depositary bank for collection, both of the following apply: (A) The depositary bank becomes a holder of the item at the time it receives the item for collection if the customer at the time of delivery was a holder of the item, whether or not the customer indorses the item, and, if the bank satisfies the other requirements of section 1303.32 of the Revised Code, it is a holder in ...

...Any agreed method that identifies the transferor bank is sufficient for the item's further transfer to another bank.

...(A) A customer or collecting bank that transfers an item and receives a settlement or other consideration warrants all of the following to the transferee and to any subsequent collecting bank: (1) The warrantor is a person entitled to enforce the item. (2) All signatures on the item are authentic and authorized. (3) The item has not been altered. (4) The item is not subject to a defense or claim in recoupment of ...

...(A) If an unaccepted draft is presented to the drawee for payment or acceptance and the drawee pays or accepts the draft, the person obtaining payment or acceptance, at the time of presentment, and a previous transferor of the draft, at the time of transfer, warrant all of the following to the drawee that pays or accepts the draft in good faith: (1) The warrantor is, or was, at the time the warrantor transferred the...

...(A) A person who encodes information on or with respect to an item after issue warrants to any subsequent collecting bank and to the payor bank or other payor that the information is correctly encoded. If the customer of a depositary bank encodes, that bank also makes the warranty. (B) A person who undertakes to retain an item pursuant to an agreement for electronic presentment warrants to any subsequent collecting ...

...(A) A collecting bank has a security interest in an item and any accompanying documents or the proceeds of the item or documents in any of the following manners: (1) In the case of an item deposited in an account, to the extent to which credit given for the item has been withdrawn or applied; (2) In the case of an item for which it has given credit available for withdrawal as of right, to the extent of the cr...

...For the purposes of determining its status as a holder in due course, a bank has given value to the extent it has a security interest in an item if the bank otherwise complies with the requirements of section 1303.32 of the Revised Code on what constitutes a holder in due course.

...(A) Unless otherwise instructed, a collecting bank may present an item not payable by, through, or at a bank by sending to the party to accept or pay a record providing notice that the bank holds the item for acceptance or payment. The notice must be sent in time to be received on or before the day when presentment is due and the bank must meet any requirement of the party to accept or pay under section 1303.61 of t...

...(A) With respect to settlement by a bank, the medium and time of settlement may be prescribed by federal reserve regulations or circulars, clearing house rules, and similar rules and documents, or agreement. In the absence of prescription in that manner, both of the following apply: (1) The medium of settlement is cash or credit to an account in a federal reserve bank of or specified by the person to receive settlem...

...(A) If a collecting bank has made provisional settlement with its customer for an item and fails by reason of dishonor, suspension of payments by a bank, or otherwise to receive settlement for the item which is or becomes final, the bank may revoke the settlement given by it, charge back the amount of any credit given for the item to its customer's account, or obtain refund from its customer whether or not it is able...

...(A) An item is finally paid by a payor bank when the bank has done any of the following: (1) Paid the item in cash; (2) Settled for the item without having a right to revoke the settlement under statute, clearing house rule, or agreement; (3) Made a provisional settlement for the item and failed to revoke the settlement in the time and manner permitted by statute, clearing house rule, or agreement. (B) If a provi...

...(A) If an item is in or comes into the possession of a payor or collecting bank that suspends payment and the item has not been finally paid, the receiver, trustee, or agent in charge of the closed bank shall return the item to the presenting bank or the closed bank's customer. (B) If a payor bank finally pays an item and suspends payments without making a settlement for the item with its customer or the presenting ...

...(A) If a payor bank settles for a demand item other than a documentary draft presented otherwise than for immediate payment over the counter before midnight of the banking day of receipt, the payor bank may revoke the settlement and recover the settlement if before it has made final payment and before its midnight deadline it does any of the following: (1) It returns the item. (2) It returns an image of the item, ...

...(A) If an item is presented to and received by a payor bank, the bank is accountable for either of the following: (1) The amount of a demand item other than a documentary draft whether properly payable or not if the bank, in any case in which it is not also the depository bank, retains the item beyond midnight of the banking day of receipt without settling for it or, regardless of whether or not it is also the depos...

...(A) Any knowledge, notice, or stop payment order received by, legal process served upon or setoff exercised by a payor bank comes too late to terminate, suspend, or modify the bank's right or duty to pay an item or to charge its customer's account for the item if the knowledge, notice, stop payment order, or legal process is received or served and a reasonable time for the bank to act on that knowledge, notice, order...

...(A) A bank may charge against the account of a customer an item that is properly payable from that account even though the charge creates an overdraft. An item is properly payable if it is authorized by the customer and is in accordance with any agreement between the customer and bank. (B) A customer is not liable for the amount of an overdraft if the customer neither signed the item nor benefited from the proceeds ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 1304.01 to 1304.40 of the Revised Code, a payor bank wrongfully dishonors an item if it dishonors an item that is properly payable, but a bank may dishonor an item that would create an overdraft unless it has agreed to pay the overdraft. (B) A payor bank is liable to its customer for damages proximately caused by the wrongful dishonor of an item. Liability is limited to a...

...(A) A customer, or any person authorized to draw on the account if there is more than one person, may stop payment of any item drawn on the customer's account or close the account by an order to the bank describing the item or account with reasonable certainty received at a time and in a manner that affords the bank a reasonable opportunity to act on it before any action by the bank with respect to the item described...

...A bank is under no obligation to a customer having a checking account to pay a check, other than a certified check, that is presented more than six months after its date, but it may charge its customer's account for a payment made in good faith after its date.

...(A) A payor or collecting bank's authority to accept, pay, or collect an item or to account for proceeds of its collection if otherwise effective is not rendered ineffective by incompetence of a customer of either bank existing at the time the item is issued or its collection is undertaken if the bank does not know of an adjudication of incompetence. Neither death nor incompetence of a customer revokes the authority ...

...(A) A bank that sends or makes available to a customer a statement of account showing payment of items for the account shall either return or make available to the customer the items paid or provide information in the statement of account sufficient to allow the customer reasonably to identify the items paid. The statement of account provides sufficient information if the item is described by item number, amount, and...

...If a payor bank has paid an item over the order of the drawer or maker to stop payment, after an account has been closed, or otherwise under circumstances giving a basis for objection by the drawer or maker, to prevent unjust enrichment and only to the extent necessary to prevent loss to the bank by reason of its payment of the item, the payor bank is subrogated to the rights of all of the following: (A) Any holder ...

...A bank that takes a documenatary draft for collection shall present or send the draft and accompanying documents for presentment and upon learning that the draft has not been paid or accepted in due course shall seasonably notify its customer of the fact even though it may have discounted or bought the draft or extended credit available for withdrawal as of right.

...(A) For purposes of this section, "public record" means either of the following: (1) Any document described or referred to in section 317.08 of the Revised Code; (2) Any document the filing or recording of which is required or allowed under any provision of Chapter 1309. of the Revised Code. (B) The recording with any county recorder of any document described in division (A)(1) of this section or the filing ...

...ficient to perform the contract. (10) "Commercial unit" means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of sale and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. A commercial unit may be a single article (as a machine) or a set of articles (as a suite of furniture or an assortment of sizes) or a quantity (as a bale, gross, or carload) or a...

...Unless the context otherwise requires, sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, apply to transactions in goods; they do not apply to any transaction which although in the form of an unconditional contract to sell or present sale is intended to operate only as a security transaction nor do sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code impair or repeal any statute regulating sales to c...

...(A) A contract for the sale of minerals or the like, including oil and gas, or a structure or its materials to be removed from realty is a contract for the sale of goods within sections 1302.01 to 1302.98 of the Revised Code, if they are to be severed by the seller but until severance a purported present sale thereof which is not effective as a transfer of an interest in land is effective only as a contract to sell. ...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section a contract for the sale of goods for the price of five hundred dollars or more is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless there is some writing sufficient to indicate that a contract for sale has been made between the parties and signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by his authorized agent or broker . A writing is not insufficient becau...

...Terms with respect to which the confirmatory memoranda of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a writing intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to such terms as are included therein may not be contradicted by evidence of any prior agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement but may be explained or supplemented: (A) by course of performance, course o...

...The affixing of a seal to a writing evidencing a contract for sale or an offer to buy or sell goods does not constitute the writing a sealed instrument and the law with respect to sealed instruments does not apply to such a contract or offer.

...(A) A contract for sale of goods may be made in any manner sufficient to show agreement, including conduct by both parties which recognizes the existence of such a contract. (B) An agreement sufficient to constitute a contract for sale may be found even though the moment of its making is undetermined. (C) Even though one or more terms are left open a contract for sale does not fail for indefiniteness if the parties...

...An offer by a merchant to buy or sell goods in a signed writing which by its terms gives assurance that it will be held open is not revocable, for lack of consideration, during the time stated or if no time is stated for a reasonable time, but in no event may such period of irrevocability exceed three months; but any such term of assurance on a form supplied by the offeree must be separately signed by the offeror.

...(A) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances: (1) an offer to make a contract shall be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances; (2) an order or other offer to buy goods for prompt or current shipment shall be construed as inviting acceptance either by a prompt promise to ship or by the prompt or current shipment of conforming ...

...(A) A definite and seasonable expression of acceptance or a written confirmation that is sent within a reasonable time operates as an acceptance even though it states terms additional or different from those offered or agreed upon, unless acceptance is expressly made conditional on assent to the additional or different terms. (B) The additional terms are to be construed as proposals for addition to the contract. Bet...

...(A) An agreement modifying a contract within sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, needs no consideration to be binding. (B) A signed agreement which excludes modification or rescission except by a signed writing cannot be otherwise modified or rescinded, but except as between merchants such a requirement on a form supplied by the merchant must be separately signed by the other party. (C) The...

...(A) A party may perform the party's duty through a delegate unless otherwise agreed or unless the other party has a substantial interest in having the original promisor perform or control the acts required by the contract. No delegation of performance relieves the party delegating of any duty to perform or any liability for breach. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 1309.406 of the Revised Code, unless...

...The obligation of the seller is to transfer and deliver and that of the buyer is to accept and pay in accordance with the contract.

...portunity to present evidence as to its commercial setting, purpose, and effect to aid the court in making the determination.

...Where the provisions of sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code allocate a risk or a burden as between the parties "unless otherwise agreed" the agreement may not only shift the allocation but may also divide the risk or burden.

...(A) The price can be made payable in money or otherwise. If it is payable in whole or in part in goods each party is a seller of the goods which he is to transfer. (B) Even though all or part of the price is payable in an interest in realty the transfer of the goods and the seller's obligations with reference to them are subject to sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code, but not the transfer of ...

...(A) The parties if they so intend can conclude a contract for sale even though the price is not settled. In such a case the price is a reasonable price at the time for delivery if: (1) nothing is said as to price; or (2) the price is left to be agreed by the parties and they fail to agree; or (3) the price is to be fixed in terms of some agreed market or other standard as set or recorded by a third person or...

...(A) A term which measures the quantity by the output of the seller or the requirements of the buyer means such actual output or requirements as may occur in good faith, except that no quantity unreasonably disproportionate to any stated estimate or in the absence of a stated estimate to any normal or otherwise comparable prior output or requirements may be tendered or demanded. (B) A lawful agreement by either the s...

...Unless otherwise agreed all goods called for by a contract for sale must be tendered in a single delivery and payment is due only on such tender but where the circumstances give either party the right to make or demand delivery in lots the price if it can be apportioned may be demanded for each lot.

...Unless otherwise agreed: (A) the place for delivery of goods is the seller's place of business or if he has none his residence; but (B) in a contract for sale of identified goods which to the knowledge of the parties at the time of contracting are in some other place, that place is the place for their delivery; and (C) documents of title may be delivered through customary banking channels.

...(A) The time for shipment or delivery or any other action under a contract if not provided in sections 1302.01 to 1302.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code or agreed upon shall be a reasonable time. (B) Where the contract provides for successive performances but is indefinite in duration it is valid for a reasonable time but unless otherwise agreed may be terminated at any time by either party. (C) Termination of a c...

...Unless otherwise agreed: (A) Payment is due at the time and place at which the buyer is to receive the goods even though the place of shipment is the place of delivery; and (B) if the seller is authorized to send the goods the seller may ship them under reservation, and may tender the documents of title, but the buyer may inspect the goods after their arrival before payment is due unless such inspection is in...

... in good faith and within limits set by commercial reasonableness. (B) Unless otherwise agreed specifications relating to assortment of the goods are at the buyer's option and except as otherwise provided in divisions (A)(3) and (C) of section 1302.32 of the Revised Code, specifications or arrangements relating to shipment are at the seller's option. (C) Where such specification would materially affect the other pa...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section there is in a contract for sale a warranty by the seller that: (1) The title conveyed shall be good, and its transfer rightful; and (2) the goods shall be delivered free from any security interest or other lien or encumbrance of which the buyer at the time of contracting has no knowledge. (B) A warranty under division (A) of this section will be excluded or modified only...