Messing v. Bank of America, N.A.

HARRELL, Judge.

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The case sub judice involves a bank check. A check is defined as a draft payable on demand and drawn on a bank. Maryland Code (1974, 2002 Repl.Vol.), Commercial Law Article, § 3-204(f)(i).1 The circumstances which gave rise to the case before us are, in terms of its genesis, reminiscent of those described in the case of Board of Inland Revenue v. Haddock.2 In that case, the protagonist, Mr. Haddock, after some *679dispute involving uncollected income-taxes owed, elected to test the limits of the law of checks as it existed at British common law at the time. Operating on the…