noun (n)

• the part of a check that is retained as a record(noun.communication)

  Synonym:
  check stub, stub
  

  source: wordnet30
• That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock.(noun)

  source: webster1913