All benefits, pensions and allowances are paid into an account.

Even so, lawyers think a cheque would have to be paid into an account with exactly the same name.

The revenue want it paid into an account in your name or a joint account.

However, the cheques - which must be for a minimum of £200 - can only be paid into an account in the investor's name.

Crossing cheques basically ensures that the money is paid into an account of the intended beneficiary of the cheque.

This makes the cheque non-transferable and is to avoid cheques being endorsed and paid into an account other than that of the named payee.

Without proof that money was paid into an account controlled by Mr Gandhi, there is little doubt that the Prime Minister will be able to continue resisting calls for his resignation.

On the instructions of Ryco the money was then transferred to Anser and paid into an account which Anser maintained in Jersey with Hambros Jersey.

Foggo later reported that Wise had supplied the European Parliament's Payments Office with a "contract" including her name and details, which stipulated that the £36,000 allowance should be paid into an account named "Stags".

The problem with common law tracing is that the property must be identifiable; if it has been mixed with other property, such as money paid into an account with other money from a different source, it cannot be successfully recovered.

I would also point out, whilst on this subject, that the macro-financial assistance provided in the form of a non-repayable grant and a loan will be paid into an account at the Central Bank, in order to increase its currency reserves and boost the balance of payments.

Some of the money was paid into an account in the Cayman Islands, with the most recent payment of $250,000 (£160,000) made in March this year and paid into an account in the Bahamas.

In Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd it was said to be done with a stipulation that the charge was "fixed" and the requirement that proceeds be paid into an account held with the lending bank.

That included a series of transactions in which about $700,000 was paid into an account at a local bank, the Credito Cooperativo Ospedaletto, belonging to Mr. Rizner, an associate of Mr. Roizis, the reputed gang leader who is under arrest.