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· 11/2/1979

Delbrueck & Co. v. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company

Citations

  • 609 F.2d 1047
  • 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 10708

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that, analogous to the “finality of checks once ‘accepted,’ ” an electronic transfer, once accepted, was irrevocable
  • applying common law but partially justifying holding by reference to U.C.C. sections 3-410, 4-303
  • “The practices associated with banking transactions can be conclusive evidence of the legal effect of those transactions”
  • wire transfers have been treated as analogous to checks in determining whether a transfer is irrevocable
  • assignment could be manifested by conduct and, in part, exists where assignor instructs his obligor to pay the specific fund owing to him to the assignee
  • “Thus, where an agent has a specific contract which is vitiated by the principal’s bankruptcy, the agency is terminated.”

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Judges: Moore, Oakes, Newman

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