A thousand or so were returned, the depositors having refused to pay the charges.
In many other ways, too, depositors are now safeguarded from loss.
The bank book was then something tremendously important, or at least depositors thought so.
This surplus, although belonging to the depositor, according to law, is never paid.
This time it appears that depositors, rather than noteholders, led the charge.
Throughout the paper, we assume that uncertainty is canceled out when depositors and entrepreneurs randomly choose banks.
There was also opposition to the idea that depositors could impose their own conditions on the use of public databases.