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• DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

DEPOSIT (See also:

• LAT

Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to See also:

• LAY

lay down, to put in the care of)  , anything laid down or separated; as in See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology, any See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of material accumulated by a natural agency (see See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

BED), and in See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry, a precipitate or See also:

• MATTER

matter settling from a See also:

• SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution or suspension . In banking, a See also:

• DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit may mean, generally, a sum of See also:

• MONEY

money lodged in a See also:

• BANK

bank without regard to the conditions under which it is held, but more specially money lodged with a bank on " deposit See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account " and acknowledged by the banker by a " deposit See also:

• RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt " given to the depositor . It is then not See also:

• DRAWN

drawn upon by See also:

• CHEQUE, or CHECK

cheque, usually bears See also:

• INTEREST

interest at a See also:

• RATE

rate varying from See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to time, and can only be withdrawn after fixed See also:

• NOTICE

notice . Deposit is also used in the sense of See also:

• EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest or See also:

• SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security for the performance of a See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

contract . In the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law of See also:

• MORTGAGE

mortgage the deposit of See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title-deeds is usual as a security for the repayment of money advanced . Such a deposit operates as an equitable mortgage . In the law of contract, deposit or See also:

• SIMPLE

simple See also:

• BAILMENT (from Fr. bailler, to place in charge of, cf. BAIL)

bailment is delivery or bailment of goods in See also:

• TRUST

trust to be kept without recompense, and redelivered on demand (see BAILMENT) .