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right of offset

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Noun1.right of offset - (banking) the legal right of a bank to seize deposited funds to cover a loan that is in default
banking - engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.
legal right - a right based in law
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


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A bank wouldn't exercise the right of offset out of the blue, said Robin Burk at US Bank.
Starting in 2002, the customers filed lawsuits, including petitions to exercise their common law right of offset by deducting damages from the first contract barges against deferred amounts owed for the second contract barges.
Most businesses assume they can apply the right of offset to net a receivable and payable.
 
 
 
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