BANK ACCOUNT

A fund which merchants, traders, and others have de- posited into the common cash of some bank, to be drawn out by checks from time to time as the owner or depositor may re- quire. The statement of the amount deposited and drawn, which is kept in duplicate, one in the depositor's bank book and the other in the books of the bank.

- A sum of ers, "transportation" being the word used money deposited in the common fund of to express a similar punishment of ordia bank, subject to be drawn out by the nary criminals. Banishment, however, check of the depositor; also the statemerely forbids the return of the person ment, on the books of the bank, and on banished before the expiration of the sentence, while transportation involves the idea of deprivation of liberty after the convict arrives at the place to which he has been carried. See PENAL SERVITUDE. BANK-LATIN: bancus, a bench. 1. In the sense of court. - The bench of justice. The sitting of the full court for the consideration of questions of law, as distinguished from sittings at Nisi Prius, for the trial of questions of fact. See BANC;

A fund, held by a bank in a contractual arrangement between the bank and the owner of the fund, a customer of the bank, into which they can deposit and from which they can withdraw money.