depository

depository
A storehouse; a place where money or valuable articles are put for safekeeping; a depositary; an official custodian of monies or other property paid into court under order of court. 23 Am J2d Deposit In Ct § 4; a banking institution designated by the judge of a bankruptcy court as the place of deposit of the funds of estates in bankruptcy. 9 Am J2d Bankr § 1240. As used in a criminal statute forbidding the possession of tools and implements adapted and designed for forcing or breaking open a building, room, vault, safe, or other depository, the term is not confined to depositories substantially similar to vaults or safes, but extends to whatever is commonly used for the safekeeping of money or other personal property. Commonwealth v Tilley, 306 Mass 412, 28 NE2d 245, 129 ALR 381.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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