Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
Section 85, NI Act: Cheque payable to order
Section 85 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in the Act's own words.
The section
85. Cheque payable to order.
1[(1)] Where a cheque payable to order purports to be endorsed by or on behalf of the payee, the drawee is discharged by payment in due course. 2[(2) Where a cheque is originally expressed to be payable to bearer, the drawee is discharged by payment in due course to the bearer thereof, notwithstanding any endorsement whether in full or in blank appearing thereon, and notwithstanding that any such endorsement purports to restrict or exclude further negotiation.]The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026; a number before a square bracket is India Code's own footnote marker for an amendment. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.
Sources
- India Code: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, section 85 (read 1 September 2026)