Enthusiastic artist, horticulturist, architect, astronomer and speaker of eight languages, it's difficult not to dwell on how presidential wannabes these days fight over who is the most ordinary Joe Schmoe.
A cheque (British English) or check (American English; see spelling differences) is a document that orders a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued.
Certified check. A certified check or certified cheque is a form of cheque for which the bank verifies that sufficient funds exist in the account to cover the cheque, and so certifies, at the time the cheque is written. Those funds are then set aside in the bank's internal account until the cheque is cashed or returned by the payee.