§ 171. Repayment of deposits standing in the names of minors, trustees\nor joint depositors; repayment where adverse claim is asserted;\ninterpleader in certain actions; effect of claims or advices originating\nin, and statutes, rules or regulations purporting to be in force in\noccupied territory. 1. When any deposit shall be made by or in the name\nof any minor, the same shall be held for the exclusive right and benefit\nof such minor, and free from the control or lien of all other persons,\nexcept creditors, and shall be paid, together with the interest thereon\nto the person in whose name the deposit shall have been made, and the\nreceipt or acquittance of such minor shall be a valid and sufficient\nrelease and discharge for such deposit or any part thereof to the\nprivate banker.\n 4. A private banker need not recognize or give any effect to a claim\nof authority to order the payment or delivery of any funds or other\nproperty standing on his books to the credit of, or held by him for the\naccount of, any person, corporation, unincorporated association or\npartnership, which claim conflicts with a claim of authority of which\nthe private banker had prior notice, unless the person or persons\nasserting such subsequent claim shall procure a restraining order,\ninjunction or other appropriate process against said private banker from\na court of competent jurisdiction in the United States, or, in lieu\nthereof, with the consent of said private banker, shall execute to said\nprivate banker, in form and with sureties acceptable to him, a bond,\nindemnifying him for any and all liability, loss, damage, costs and\nexpenses for or on account of any payment or delivery of such property\nby him pursuant to such subsequent claim of authority or for or on\naccount of the dishonor of any check or other order of any person or\npersons asserting the claim of authority of which such private banker\nalready had notice at the time the subsequent conflicting claim of\nauthority is asserted by the person or persons furnishing such bond.\n 5. Notice to any private banker of an adverse claim to any property,\nor to a deposit of cash or securities standing on his books to the\ncredit of, or held for the account of, any person shall not be effectual\nto cause said private banker to recognize said adverse claimant unless\nsaid adverse claimant shall also either procure a restraining order,\ninjunction or other appropriate process against said private banker from\na court of competent jurisdiction in the United States in a cause\ntherein instituted by him wherein the person to whose credit the deposit\nstands, or for whose account the property or deposit is held, or his\nexecutor or administrator is made a party and served with summons, or\nshall execute to said private banker, in form and with sureties\nacceptable to him a bond, indemnifying said private banker from any and\nall liability, loss, damage, costs and expenses, for and on account of\nthe payment of or delivery pursuant to such adverse claim or the\ndishonor of the check or other order of the person to whose credit the\ndeposit stands, or for whose account the property or deposit is held, on\nthe books of said private banker.\n 6. (a) In all actions against any private banker to recover for moneys\non deposit therewith, if there be any person or persons, not parties to\nthe action who claim the same fund, the court in which the action is\npending, may, on the petition of such private banker, and upon eight\ndays' notice to the plaintiff and such claimants, and without proof as\nto the merits of the claim, make an order amending the proceedings in\nthe action by making such claimants parties defendant thereto; and the\ncourt shall thereupon proceed to determine the rights and interests of\nthe several parties to the action in and to such funds. The remedy\nprovided in this section shall be in addition to and not exclusive of\nthat provided in any other interpleader provision.\n (b) T
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