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“Paid in Full” Wives’ Tale True? When Endorsing A Check, Yes Ma’am!

By Matthew DeVries on January 22, 2018
Posted in Best Practices, Case Law, Claims and Disputes, Legal Trends

Long before I was an attorney, I heard this tale that if you endorsed a check that had the words “PAID IN FULL” written on the check, then you were accepting the check as full payment of what was owed.  But I had never really thought about that legal principle because, “People don’t really do…

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