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<law><law_id>774780</law_id><section_number>6.2-897</section_number><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><edition url="https://vacode.org/2016/" id="11" last_updated="2016-07-24" current="TRUE">2016</edition><structure><unit level="1" identifier="6.2" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/">Financial Institutions And Services</unit><unit level="2" identifier="II" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/II/">Depository Institutions And Trust Organizations</unit><unit level="3" identifier="8" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/II/8/">Banks</unit><unit level="4" identifier="11" url="https://vacode.org/2016/6.2/II/8/11/">Deposit Accounts.</unit></structure><catch_line/><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 6-57; 1966, c. 584, &#xA7; 6.1-75; 2010, c. 794.</history><order_by/><metadata/><court_decisions/><official_url>http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/6.2-897/</official_url><refers_to/><url>/6.2-897/</url><token>6.2/II/8/11/6.2-897</token><referred_to_by/><text><section id="2498280" prefix=""><text>If any fiduciary or agent makes a deposit in a bank to his personal credit of checks drawn by him upon an account in his own name as fiduciary, or of checks drawn by him upon an account in the name of his principal, if he is empowered to draw checks thereon, or of checks payable to his principal and endorsed by him as fiduciary, the bank receiving the deposit:</text><type>section</type><prefixes><section/></prefixes><entire_prefix/><prefix_anchor/><level>1</level></section><section id="2498281" prefix="1"><text> Shall not be required to inquire whether the fiduciary is committing thereby a breach of his obligation as fiduciary; and</text><type>section</type><prefixes><section/><section>1</section></prefixes><entire_prefix>1</entire_prefix><prefix_anchor>1</prefix_anchor><level>2</level></section><section id="2498282" prefix="2"><text> Is authorized to pay the amount of the deposit or any part thereof upon the withdrawal by the fiduciary without being liable to the principal, unless the bank receives the deposit or pays the withdrawal with (i) actual knowledge that the fiduciary, in making such deposit or in making such withdrawal, is committing a breach of his obligation as fiduciary or (ii) knowledge of such facts that its action in receiving the deposit or paying the check amounts to bad faith.</text><type>section</type><prefixes><section/><section>2</section></prefixes><entire_prefix>2</entire_prefix><prefix_anchor>2</prefix_anchor><level>2</level></section></text></law>
