1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 144 The Payment of the Redraught from the place where the Bill was to be paid.

1739 R. Hayes Negociator's Mag. (ed. 4) 2 Whole Re-draughts he hath accepted, and the Acceptor for all this, instead of his paying the Bills, runs away with his Monies, or becomes insolvent.

1799 J. Chitty Treat. Bills Exchange ii. v. 216 He may..be obliged to pay 309l. 4s. 5d. more than the amount of the bill, which sum forms..the re-exchange..and is..the difference between the draft and the re-draft.

1826 G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scotl. (ed. 5) I. iii. i. ii. 405 This redraft is to be made directly on the place of the original draft.

1876 Times 14 Dec. 10/4 The principal question in dispute turned upon the construction to be put on articles in the Spanish Code, with regard to the law of protest and re-draught.

1932 C. A. Campbell Devel. Banking Tennessee iii. 71 The redraft was really caused by a failure of the crop upon which the small farmer or planter depended for payment of his original draft, and was based on the one that failed.

1995 J. Adelman in J. Harriss et al. New Institutional Econ. & Third World Devel. iv. xiv. 234 The letra de cambio (bill of exchange or lading) which through redrafts and multiple endorsements circulated in limited fashion..as an alternative instrument to settle accounts.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Redraft, a second draft or copy.

1856 Amer. Jrnl. Educ. 2 493 If the question be limited to the more restricted form,..then, again, I would entirely dissent from the conclusions of the re-draft.

1890 Times 28 Nov. 7/1 The part of the Bill which dealt with the congested districts was very little more than a redraft of the original measure.

1927 Columbia Law Rev. 27 654 The bills,..after many re-drafts and revisions and prolonged debate in the Senate took final form and became law in the fall of 1914.

1997 B. Morrow Giovanni's Gift i. 35 He had gone into the office early that morning, with the idea of finishing the redraft of a museum extension.

1795 T. Pownall Descr. Rom. Antiq. Bath Pref. p. vii I..revised and redrafted these letters into this paper as it now stands.

1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 183 Colonel Allen..gave it to the late Roger Sherman,..praying him to redraft it, and propose it as his own.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Redraft, to draw or draft anew.

1884 Manch. Examiner 29 Mar. 5/2 The bill..is likely to be entirely redrafted.

1912 Amer. Hist. Rev. 18 80 Later as chairman of the Committee on Judiciary he redrafted the measure.

2000 Sci. Fiction Chron. Aug.–Sept. 15/3 I sometimes have to redraft things like that over and over to get them right.