Notice by payee to drawer for claim other than dishonoured cheque

Updated atDecember 2009

Name:........................

........................

Office:........................

........................

Residence:........................

........................

Date:........................

Regd. A.D./U.P.C

To

Name.............................

Address...........................

Subject: Dishonour of Cheque

Sir,

I have to serve you with the following legal notice:

  1. That as you know that I am running the business of................... (hereinafter called goods) and I am the main stockist and dealer of the same. I am doing the business of dealing in..........................in my personal name

  2. That you have been purchasing the said....................... from me since.......... (give the date of first dealing or the estimated period of relationship) and due to the faith I reposed in you, I started allowing you to take the delivery of goods from me against the issue of cheques for the amount payable in respect of the goods purchased.

  3. That besides the goods you have paid for, you purchased goods with the following description:

    Invoice No. Date of Invoice Amount Status of ST Form
    (i)
    (ii)
    (iii)
    (iv)
  4. That against the above mentioned goods you have issued the cheques with the following description:

    Cheque No. Invoice No. Date of Cheque Amount Drawee Bank
    (i)
    (ii)
    (iii)
    (iv)
  5. That the total amount of goods you have purchased was Rs.............. out of which you have issued the cheques totaling to Rs................. Thus, other than the cheques as stated above, Rs........ also is due in my favour from you.

  6. That above said cheques were issued at the time of delivery of goods promising that on the presentment of the said cheques they will be honoured and the balance was to be paid by you within a period of one week from the date of delivery of goods.

  7. That the above stated cheques have been dishonoured on their presentment with the endorsement "Insufficiency of Funds in the Account of the Drawer" on............ (Date) vide Returning Memo Nos..............,.............,............,............ of which I got the information on....................... (Date) from the bank. Had I known that on their presentment the cheques so issued would be dishonoured I would never have delivered those goods.

  8. That in all, the cheques which were issued by you in discharge of your liability/debt have been dishonoured...

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