customer

customer
One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of, or has business dealings with, a tradesman or business. Aiken Mills v. United States, D.C.S.C., 53 F.Supp. 524, 526; Arkwright Corporation v. United States, D.C.Mass., 53 F.Supp. 359, 361.
Ordinarily, one who has had repeated business dealings with another. A buyer, purchaser, consumer or patron. In banking, any person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items and includes a bank carrying an account with another bank. U.C.C. No. 4-104(e).
As to letters of credit, a buyer or other person who causes an issuer to issue credit or a bank which procures issuance or confirmation on behalf of that bank's customer. U.C.C. No. 5-103(g)
@ customers' goods
This term as used in statement of claim on fire policy referring to merchandise destroyed as "customers' goods," in its ordinary sense, means goods belonging to insured's customers in his custody as a bailee for the purpose of his trade
@ customers' man
One who has duty to greet customers of broker, when they appear in office on business, to assist them in placing their orders, and generally to see that their wants are taken care of. Fenner & Beane v. Lincoln, Tex.Civ.App., 101 S.W.2d 305, 308.
An employee of a brokerage house who solicits or processes orders from the investing public for the purchase and sale of commodities and securities to be executed upon various commodities and securities exchanges. Such persons also give investment advice to customers about the purchase and sale of securities. Clothier v. Beane, 187 Okl. 693, 105 P.2d 752, 756
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