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The internet comes to the information rescue: http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-20434,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2043... It was close enough to being a real cheque aside from 'non-negotiable' and a whole host of other things on it to make it invalid, except the law prevented those things from mattering which turned it into a real cheque. Seems a bit fishy, but if the law says that it was a valid cheque, and it's been paid there's very little they can do except sue, which of course is how any big boy wins a fight these days.