Secured Transactions Flashcards
Article 9 security interest
consensual lien on personal property
Types of personal property (goods)
- Consumer goods
- Farm products
- Inventory
- goods held for sale
- goods held for lease
- goods that are rapidly consumed - Equipment (residual category)
Account (definition)
Right to payment arising out of one of the transactions w/n article 9
Types of Accounts
- Sale of goods
2. Rendition of services
Article 9 instrument
Article 3 negotiable instrument
Types of Personal Property (non-goods)
- Accounts
- NIs
- Chattel Paper
- Deposit Accounts
- Documents
- Investment Property
- Commercial Tort Claims (CTCs)
- General Intangibles
Chattel Paper
- Written lease of personal property
2. Documentation generated by a secured transaction
Deposit Accounts (not included)
Consumer account when the transaction is for a consumer purpose
CTCs
- Any tort claim that a business has is a CMT
2. Tort claims by individuals are CMTs if they arise out of the operation of a biz + do not involve PI.
General intangibles
Residual category for all non-goods
Attachment (effect)
Article 9 event when a creditor acquires a security interest and becomes a secured party.
Attachment creates rights against the debtor
Attachment events (Very Rich Shit)
- Value given
- Debtor has to have rights in the collateral
- SOF
Article 9 SOF
- Debtor must authenticate
- Evidences grant of security interest
- Describe collateral
Article 9 SOF description
*Cannot be super-generic
OK:
“All inventory”
“All equipment”
“All chattel paper”
Description of CTCs
Must be somewhat specific (date)
Description of consumer goods
Even more specific:
OK:
“All furniture”
“All snowmobiles”
SOF Exception
Possession by secured party