In banking, antedated refers to
cheque
A cheque, or check (American English; see spelling differences) is a document that orders a bank (or credit union) to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The pers ...
s which have been written by the drawer, and dated at some point in the past. In the United States antedated cheques are described in the
Uniform Commercial Code
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), first published in 1952, is one of a number of Uniform Acts that have been established as law with the goal of harmonizing the laws of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States through U ...
's Article 3, Section 113.
See also
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Post-dated cheque In banking, a post-dated cheque is a cheque written by the drawer (payer) for a date in the future.
Whether a post-dated cheque may be cashed or deposited before the date written on it depends on the country. A Canadian bank, for example, is not ...
References
3 UCC 113 from the Cornell Law Center's online version of the Uniform Commercial Code
Antedated
Banking terms
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