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4 Types of Goods

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  1. consumer goods
  2. inventory
  3. farm products
  4. equipment
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3 Factors of Goods

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  1. movable
  2. tangible
  3. personal property
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Types of Collateral

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  1. goods
  2. instruments
  3. documents
  4. chattel paper
  5. Deposit
    Account
  6. Commercial Tort Claim
  7. Accounts
  8. General Intangible
  9. investment property
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who possess Documents

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Person in possession is entitled to possess goods

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Question to determine what kind of good an object is

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What is it in the hands of the Debtor?

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What are consumer goods?

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items bought personal, family, household purposes

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What are farm products?

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born and unborn livestock, growing stuff, etc.

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What is inventory?

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goods held for sale or lease, materials used up, goods for service contracts

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What is equipment?

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any goods not consumer goods, farm products, or inventory. Used as part of business but not “used up”

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What is an intangible?

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valuable personal property that takes no physical form

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What is a quasi-intangible?

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valuable property that has physical form, but it is not the form that makes it valuable.

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What are accounts?

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(accounts recievable)

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what is an instrument

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checks, promissory notes, etc.

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what are documents?

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documents of title

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what are general intangibles?

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trademarks, licenses, patents, copyrights, tax refund claims

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commercial tort claims

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an intangible that must be a business claim and cannot be for a PI suit or death suit

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3 requirements for attachment

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  1. debtor has rights in collateral
  2. value has been given
  3. valid security agreement
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When is value given?

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this is very liberal, Debtor’s promise to pay can be the value, past consideration can also be value.

The question is usually did the creditor give value - by extending credit or giving a loan

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Two ways a debtor has rights in collateral

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  1. debtor has rights on his own

2. debtor has power to transfer rights in the collateral to a third party

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is naked possession enough to justify rights in collateral?

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no.

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Estoppel re: rights to collateral

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a true owner of property is estopped from claiming that a debtor does not have rights in collateral where the owner allows the debtor to appear as the owner and the appearance reasonably misleads a creditor.

(creditor has a duty to make reasonable efforts to determine the true owner)

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Security Agreement PLUS

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you need a written authenticated (by the debtor) agreement in all situations except when a creditor takes possession of the item, then an oral contract will suffice

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What is sufficiency in a description for a security agreement?

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it must “reasonably identify” the collateral

  • specific listing
  • category
  • collateral specifically defined in UCC (all inventory)
  • quantity
  • plain language (tv, fridge)
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what is insufficient in description for security agreement?

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“all the debtors assets”

“all the debtors personal property”

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Two types of PMSIs
1. Seller sells goods to buyer on credit and retains security interest in that good 2. financier provides funding to buy a specific good and retains security interest in that good
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PMSI: Close nexus test
there must be a close nexus between acquisition of collateral and the secured obligation
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When is a security interest perfected?
where the interest has attached and the other requirements are satisfied
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4 methods of perfection
1. filing 2. possession 3. control 4. automatic possession
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Perfection by Filing
must be in the right place and must be sufficiently filed
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Whose law governs filing?
law where debtor is located
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Where is the debtor located: individual
place of principal residence (sole proprietor = individual)
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Where is the debtor located: organization not registered with only one place of business
place of business
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Where is the debtor located: organization not registered with more than one place of business
place of its chief executive office
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Where is the debtor located: registered organization
place where registered
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3 requirements for filing to be sufficient
1. name of debtor 2. name of creditor 3. description of collateral covered (more loose than agreement requirement)(generic description is fine)
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When is the name of the debtor sufficient?
1. not seriously misleading | 2. safe harbor
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Sufficient filing: name of debtor is not seriously misleading (individual) (2 tests)
only-if state: must use the name on the non expired drivers licenses safe harbor state: safe if you use the name on the expired drivers license
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Sufficient filing: name of debtor is not seriously misleading (partnership)
name of partnership if available, if not use the names of the partners best practice: give all the names
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Sufficient filing: name of debtor is not seriously misleading (organizations)
registereed name, not bda
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sufficient filing: Test for when an incorrect name on a filing will not be seriously misleading
if it comes up in the search for that individual's name (this is dependent on the state's standard search logic)
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Sufficient filing: when is collateral sufficiently identified?
generic descriptions are okay. descriptions like those in the security agreement are okay. ex. an incorrect serial number for a tractor is okay if the debtor only has one tractor, but this would be insufficient if the number refers to another tractor that was not contemplated in the security agreement.
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How long is a filing sufficient to perfect a security interest? when does it need to be continued?
5 years. amendments must be made within 6 months of the filing expiring.
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when does a filing statement need to be amended?
1. Debtor moves - 4 month grace period after move 2. Debtor changes name - 4 month grace period after change 3. Collateral moves - 1 year grace period
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Filing: Lapse
where there is a lapse, collateral ceases to be effective and interest is treated as unperfected.
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What collateral requires a Termination statement and when must it be filed?
consumer goods and if must be filed with 1 month after there is no obligation secured by the collateral or within 20 day after secured party receives an authenticated demand from the debtor
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In what collateral is perfection by possession available? | IGMC
- negotiable instruments - goods - instruments - money - chattel paper
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Perfection by automatic perfection
requires a PMSI in consumer goods
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Perfection by Control is available for
a security interest in deposit accounts, letter-of-credit rights, electronic chattel paper (certificated securities, uncertificated securities, entitlements)
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3 ways to perfect in a deposit account by control
1. secured party is the bank where the account is held 2. debtor, creditor, and bank agree in an authenticated record that the secured party can control the account without further consent by the debtor 3. secured party becomes the bank's customer with respect to the deposit account.
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perfection by controlling certificated securities
1. bearer form - certificated security is delivered to the secured party 2. registered form - the debtor endorses the certificate to the secured party or registers it in the name of the secured party
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Priority: General Rule | perfected v. perfected
first to file or perfect gets priority
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Priority: General rule | unperfected v. unperfected
first to attach
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Priority: Perfected v. unperfected
perfected wins
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Priority: PMSI rule 1 | When there is a PMSI in goods other than inventory or livestock
A PMSI is goods other than inventory or livestock, you have priority over other interests in the same goods or proceeds if your PMSI is perfected at the time the debtor receives the collateral or within 20 days thereafter
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Priority: PMSI rule 2 | When there is a PMSI in inventory
Priority IF perfected at time of possession AND send authenticated notice to others who already have security interest within 5 years.
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Priority: PMSI v. PMSI
seller financed wins over financer financed
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Priority: Art. 9 v. non art 9 (general)
security interest follows the collateral
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Priority: Art. 9 v. non art 9 (authorized sale exception)
Creditor authorizes the sale free of competing interests. Can be express or implied ex. selling inventory to an ordinary consumer (implied), ex. creditor doesn't stand in the way of sale (acquiescence)
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Priority: Art. 9 v. non art 9 (buyer in ordinary course)
Buyer in ordinary course of business takes free of the security interest even if he knows the interest is perfected. Buyer in ordinary course: (1) good faith (2) don't know it violates secured person's rights (not that you don't know there is a security interest, but that you don't know it violates) and (3) seller deals in goods of that kind
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Priority: Art. 9 v. non art 9 (consumer to consumer sale rule) (garage sale rule)
buyer takes free of sec interest if he doesn't know about the sec interest, buys for value, and for household purpose UNLESS secured party files a statement before the sale
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Proceeds: General Rule
security interest continues in any identifiable proceeds
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Proceeds: Identifiable Commingled Funds test | lowest intermediate balance rule
if proceeds are depleted below the secured amount, the security interest on the funds on deposit abates accordingly. you get the lowest amount in the commingled account from the time proceeds were deposited to the time this test is being administered. Ex. Account has $1000 in it, proceeds are added

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