Secured Transaction Flashcards
Definition of secured transaction
Transaction intended to create a security interest in personal property or fixtures.
Debtor
Person who owes payment or performance of the obligation secured.
Secured party
A lender, seller or other person in whose favor there is a security
Security agreement
Agreement between the debtor and the secured party that creates a security interest.
Security interest
An interest in personal property or fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation.
Collateral
Property subject to a security interest.
Purchase money security interest
1) security party cells that are collateral on credit and retains a security interest
2) an enabling loan, a loan to a debtor that enables the debtor to buy collateral (Loan proceeds must actually be used to acquire the collateral)
PMSI in non-consumer goods
Security interests and non-consumer goods does not lose its status as a purchase money security interest if the purchase money obligation also secures an obligation that is not purchase money: non-purchase money collateral also secures the purchase money obligation: or the purchase money obligation has been renewed, refinance, consolidated for restructured.
After acquired property clause
A clause that allows a party to obtain a security interests not only debtor’s present property but also property that the debtor will obtain in the future.
Future advance clause
Clause that makes a security agreement apply to not only this loan but any future loans made to the debtor.
Attachment
Deals with those steps legally required to get the secured party a security interest in the collateral that is effective as against the debtor.
Perfection
Deals with those steps legally required to give the secured party an interest in the collateral that is effective as against the world.
Financing statement
Document generally used to provide public notice of the security interest, and so perfect the security interest.
Goods
Includes all things which are movable at the time the security interest attaches, and include the unborn young of animals and growing crops.
Consumer goods
Goods used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes.
Equipment
Goods bought or used for use primarily in business
Farm products
Crops or livestock or supplies used or produced in farming operations or products of crops and livestock in their unmanufactured states if they are in the possession of a debtor engaged in farming operations
Inventory
Held by a person who holds them for sale or lease or to be furnished under service contracts, materials used or consumed in a business
Instruments
Negotiable instruments and any other writing which evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation and which are in ordinary course of business transferred by delivery with any necessary endorsement or assignment
Documents
Document which in the regular course of business is treated as evidencing that the person in possession of it is entitled to receive, hold and dispose of the document and the goods it covers
Chattel paper
A record or records which evidence both a monetary obligation and a security interest in or a lease of specific goods.
Investment property
Includes items such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and brokerage accounts containing such items
Accounts
Right to payment not evidenced by an instrument or chattel paper for goods, for services, for real property, for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, for energy provided or to be provided, for the use or hire of a vessel, arising out of the use of the credit card, or as lottery winnings. Health care insurance receivables are included.
Deposit accounts
A demand, time, savings, passbook, or similar account maintained with the bank.
Commercial tort claims
A claim arising in tort with respect to which the claimant as an organization, or the claimant as an individual and the claim arose in the claimant’s business or profession and does not include damages for personal injury or the death of an individual.
General intangibles
Any personal property not coming within the scope of the other definitions.
Scope of article 9
Article 9 applies to any transaction regardless of its form that creates a security interest and personal property or fixtures by contract: any agricultural lien: a sale of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes: consignments: secured sale disguised as a lease
Authenticated security agreement
Unless the collateral is in the possession or control of the secured party pursuant to an agreement, a written or electronically stored security agreement is required.
Form of the security agreement
1) the security agreement must show an intent to create a security interest.
2) security agreement must be signed or marked electronically with the present intent to identify the authenticating person and adopt the agreement
3) security agreement must reasonably identify the collateral meaning that it make possible the identification of the thing described.
Value by the secured party
Secured party must have given value for the security interest usually takes the form of extending credit or a pre-existing debt.
Debtor rights in the collateral
Ownership interest and or the right to obtain possession of the collateral qualifies as right in the collateral. There also is rights in the collateral where the property belongs to someone else has authorized the debtor to put it up as collateral.