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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77755</law_id><section_number>8.4A-205</section_number><catch_line>Erroneous payment orders</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.4A-402</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.4A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Funds Transfers</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Issue and Acceptance of Payment Order</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> If an accepted payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> was transmitted pursuant to a security procedure for the detection of error and the payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> (i) erroneously instructed payment to a beneficiary not intended by the sender, (ii) erroneously instructed payment in an amount greater than the amount intended by the sender, or (iii) was an erroneously transmitted duplicate of a payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> previously sent by the sender, the following rules apply: <a id="paragraph-278878" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-205/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> If the sender proves that the sender or a person acting on behalf of the sender pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Transmission of payment order through funds-transfer or other communication system" href="/8.4A-206/">8.4A-206</a> complied with the security procedure and that the error would have been detected if the receiving bank had also complied, the sender is not obliged to pay the <span class="dictionary">order</span> to the extent stated in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection. <a id="paragraph-278879" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-205/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">funds transfer</span> is completed on the basis of an erroneous payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> described in clause (i) or (iii) of this subsection, the sender is not obliged to pay the <span class="dictionary">order</span> and the receiving bank is entitled to recover from the beneficiary any amount paid to the beneficiary to the extent allowed by the <span class="dictionary">law</span> governing mistake and <span class="dictionary">restitution</span>. <a id="paragraph-278880" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-205/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> If the <span class="dictionary">funds transfer</span> is completed on the basis of a payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> described in clause (ii) of this subsection, the sender is not obliged to pay the <span class="dictionary">order</span> to the extent the amount received by the beneficiary is greater than the amount intended by the sender. In that case, the receiving bank is entitled to recover from the beneficiary the excess amount received to the extent allowed by the <span class="dictionary">law</span> governing mistake and <span class="dictionary">restitution</span>. <a id="paragraph-278881" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-205/#a3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> If (i) the sender of an erroneous payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> described in subsection (a) of this section is not obliged to pay all or part of the <span class="dictionary">order</span>, and (ii) the sender receives notification from the receiving bank that the <span class="dictionary">order</span> was accepted by the bank or that the sender&#x2019;s account was debited with respect to the <span class="dictionary">order</span>, the sender has a duty to exercise ordinary care, on the basis of information available to the sender, to discover the error with respect to the <span class="dictionary">order</span> and to advise the bank of the relevant <span class="dictionary">facts</span> within a reasonable time, not exceeding ninety days, after the bank&#x2019;s notification was received by the sender. If the bank proves that the sender failed to perform that duty, the sender is liable to the bank for the loss the bank proves it incurred as a result of the failure, but the liability of the sender may not exceed the amount of the sender&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">order</span>. <a id="paragraph-278882" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-205/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> This section applies to amendments to payment <span class="dictionary">orders</span> to the same extent it applies to payment <span class="dictionary">orders</span>. <a id="paragraph-278883" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-205/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1990, c. 9.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
