Secured Flashcards
What are goods?
Anything moveable at the time that the SI attaches and includes fixtures.
What are the four types of goods
Consumer goods
Farm products
Inventory
Equipment
What are consumer goods
Are goods acquired primarily for personal, family, or household purposes
What are farm products?
Crops grown, growing or to be grown, livestock born or unborn, supplies used in farming and products of crops and livestock in an unmanufacrtured state
What is inventory?
Goods, other than farm products held for sale or lease;
furnished under a service contract;
Raw materials, works in process or
Material used and consumed in business
Note difference in these raw material and “equipment” used in business
What is equipment?
Goods that are not consumer goods, farm products or inventory.
*This is things primarily bought to use at work such as a desk or machines etc
What are the other types of collateral other than goods?
Chattel paper
Documents
Instruments
Investment property
Accounts
Commercial tort claims
Deposit accounts
Letter of credit
General intangibles
When does attachment occur making a SI enforceable?
(I) value has been given by the secured party
(ii) the debtor has rights in the collateral and
(iii) the debtor has authenticated a security agreement that describes the collateral or the secured party has possession or control of the collateral pursuant to a security agreement.
When is a security agreement authenticated?
SA should be in a record (tangible medium), contain a description of the collateral and be authenticated by the debtor (usually signed by debtor)
What is chattel paper?
Records evidencing
(1) a monetary obligation and
(2) security interests in specific goods or a lease of specific goods
*can be electric or tangible
What is a document?
Document if title, which confers on the holder ownership rights in the goods help by a bailee. (Bill of landing, transportation docs, warehouse receipt, order for delivery)
What are instruments?
Negotiable and nonnegotiable instruments evidencing a right to payment of monetary obligations and transferred in the ordinary course of business by delivery. (Ex: certificates of deposit from bank)
What is investment property?
Certificates and uncertificated securities. (Such as stocks, bonds, securities accounts)
What are accounts?
Right to payment for property sold, leased, licensed, or otherwise disposed of or services rendered or to be rendered.
What is a deposit account?
Includes savings, passport, time, or demand account maintained with a bank. (NO accounts such as investment or evidence by instruments)
What are general intangibles?
Catch all, any personal property not in another category.
When is a lease a security interest?
When although in the form of a lease, it’s really a secured transaction.
Note for possession under attachment, the possession must be pursuant to a SA which may be oral or written.
What is after acquired collateral?
Collateral the debtor acquires in the picture.
Ex: all inventory owned now and hereafter acquired.
Majority rule is after acquired collateral is presumed but argue minority too.