Here's what I was driving at: when she says
Cheque defined: A cheque is a bill of exchange drawn on a banker payable on demand
my suspicion is that she's attributing more significance to "cheque" vs. "check" than actually exists, and her letter seems to bear that out. That is, a check is just a check, but a
cheque is a magical bill of exchange that makes all your debts go away. Hence the emphasis in phrases like:
I am submitting a second US CERTIFIED CHEQUE....
...the cheques I have presented are US cheques and therefore acceptable within ALL US BANKS.
...I have presented the bill of exchange (cheques) to you for Acceptance your legal obligation henceforth is to Now present the bill of exchange (cheque) to the Were bank....
What's interesting is that PoE is not selling it at home exactly that way (nor could he, plausibly), so this may represent an emerging branch of the scheme. (Yes, all right, only in the countries that can't spell "cheque" properly.) The "bill of exchange" scheme has a long history in the US already, so it should not be surprising that something along that line would happen once the
Werechecks Werecheques got into the wild over here.
If this is, in fact, what's happening, it suggests that the Werebank scheme is getting out of Peter's control a bit (that, or he really doesn't care as long as he got his £35, which we pretty well know already). It would also fit with a trait that seems to show up often in the sovcit literature: putting too much significance on minor, often trifling, details. This is how we get detailed style guides on what color of ink to use in signing your name, what precise angle to write at when refusing for cause, etc.
littleFred wrote:
I enjoyed her threat to instruct WeRe not to release funds unless she had heard within 10 days that the account was settled.
Someone did point out to her that the 1882 Bills of Exchange Act was British, doesn't apply in the USA. (And anyhow, it doesn't say what she claims it does.)
But admin had said it was a Universal Law, and does apply in the United States. So that's all right then.
Well, some of that crowd also think the Uniform Commercial Code is "universal," and applies in the UK, so I suppose that shouldn't be a surprise. It would be a treat to hear that the leasing company's collections people had sent back a reply citing the
Treaty of Paris, though.