secured transactions Flashcards
secured transaction
is a transaction intended to create a security interest in personal property or fixtures
2. generally involves a sale on credit or a loan in which the seller or the lender obtains a lien on some or all of the debtor’s property as security for payment
what to look for in a secured transaction
- a credit transaction (sale on credit or a loan)
2. an agreement that creates a lien in favor of the creditor in the debtor’s personal property to secure the debt
debtor
the person who owes payment or performance of the obligations secured
secured party
a lender, seller, or other person in whose favor there is a security interest
security agreement
the agreement between the debtor and the secured party that creates the security interest
security interest
an interest in personal property of fixtures which secures payment or performance of an obligation
collateral
the property subject to a security interest here
purchase money security interest
- secured party sells debtor collateral on credit and retains a security interest
- an enabling loan, a loan to a debtor that enables the debtor to buy collateral
- the credit or loan proceeds must actually be used to acquire collateral
security interest in nonconsumer goods does not lose its status as PMSI
- 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 has been renewed, refinances, consolidated or resrtuctured
after acquired property clause
- a secured party often will want to obtain a security interest not only in debtor’s present property but also in property that the debtor will obtain in the future
- this is permissible, security agreements typically contain an after acquired property clause
future advance clause
- secured party contemplates making future loans to the debtor and wants to secure these future advances in the present security agreement
- this is permissible becuase security agreements typically contain a future advance clause in which case the new security agreement is not needed when a future advance is made
attachment
deals with those steps legally required to give the secured party a security interest in the collateral that is effective as against the debtor
perfection in secured transactions
deals with those steps legally required to gie 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 to perfect the security interest
types of collateral: goods
- includes all things which are movable at the time the security interest attaches and include the unborn young of animals and growing crops
- also includes fixtures
- classes of goods:
consumer goods
equipment
farm products
inventory
consumer goods
used or bought primarily for use primarily for personal family or household purposes
equipment
used or bought for use primarily in business
farm products
crops or livestock or supplies used or produced in farming operations or productd of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured states if they are in the possession of a debtor engaged in farming operations
inventory
held by the person who holds them for sale or lease or to be furnished under service contracts, materials used or consumed in business
instruments
negotiable instruments and any other writing which evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation and which are in the ordinary course of business transferred by delivery with any necessary endorsement or assignment but does not include investment property
documents as semi-intangible and intangible property
a document which in the regular course of business is treated as evidencing that the person in possession of it is entitles 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.
- a record is information that is stored in either a tangible medium or an intangible medium
- chattel paper that is stored in an electronic medium also is called electronic chattel paper
investment property
includes items such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds and brokerage accounts
accounts
a right to payment not evidences by an instrument or chattel paper for
1. goods
2. services
3. real property
4. for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued
5. for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred
6. for energy provided ot to be provided
7. for the use or hire of a vessel
8. arising out of the use of a credit card
9. as lottery winnings
10 a contractual obligation arising from a loan of money is not an account it is a general intangible
deposit account
- a demand time, savings, passbook or similar account maintained with a bank
- not article 9 generally applies to deposit accounts as original collateral and deposit account that are claims as proceeds of other collateral
exception to the deposit account
article 9 does not apply to an assignment of a deposit account in a consumer transaction
commercial tort claims
- a claim arising in tort with respect to which the claimant is an organization or where the claimant is 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 intangible
any personal property not coming within the scope of the other definitions
2, general intangalbe under which the account debtor principal’s obligation is a monetary obligation is a payment intangible
article 9 applies to
- any transaction regardless of its form, that a security interest in personal property or fixtures by contract-kind of a title retention contract
- an agricultural lien
- a sale of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissiry notes
- most consignments
- a secured sale disguised as a lease
article 9 consignments
- the consigned goods are worth more than 1000
- the consignor did not use the goods as consumer goods
- th3 consignee deals in goods of the kind under a name other than the consignors
- the consignee is not an auctioneer
- the consignee is not generally known by her creditors to be substantially engaged in selling of goods of others
- a consignor’s interest in the consigned goods is considered to be a PMSI in inventory
an 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
- most often the debtor wants possession of the collateral so a writing is necessary
form of the security agreement
- the agreement must be evidenced by a record and must show an intent to create a security interest/ there are no magic words which create a security interest. there must be language in the record which leads to the logical conclusion that the parties intended to create a security interest
- the agreement must be authenticated by the debtor, it must be signed or marked electronically with the present intent to identify the authenticating person and adopt the agreement
- the agreement must contain a description of the collateral and if the security interest covers timber to be cut, a description of the land concerned. it must reasonably identify the collateral
the secured party must be given value
- the secured party extends credit to the debtor (secured party sells goods to the debtor on credit or the secured party loans the debtor money) and takes a security interest in the goods
- in addition, a pre-existing debt is considered to be value given
the debtor must have rights in the collateral
- an ownership interest in or the right to obtain possession of the collateral qualifies as rights in the collateral
- the debtor also has rights in collateral where the property belongs to someone else who authoirzed the debtor to put it up as collateral
scope of the security interest
- debt can be secured by future advances
- property may include after acquired property
Exception: a security interest does not attach under an after acquired property clause to consumer goods unless the debtor acquires rights in them within 10 days after the secured party gives value AND an after acquired property clause is ineffective as to commercial tort claims - when talking inventory and account which turn over rapidly, and there is no after acquired clause, court usually presume it to be in there
- property secured generally includes proceeds
property secured generally includes proceeds
- proceeds includes whatever is received upon the exchange, sale, collection or other disposition of collateral or proceeds
- unless otherwise agreed, a security agreement is presumed to give the secured party rights to proceeds
- has to be identifiable proceeds
- what if the proceeds are co-minlged with other money in an account proceed dollars are the last dollars to leave the account
- once the proceed dollars are gone, they are gone, they do not come back in
- the attachment of a secuirty interest in collateral also is an attachment of a security interest in a supporting obligation for that collateral
perfection of the security interest
- deals primarily with rights as between the secured party and third parties
- perfection is not necessary to create a valid, enforceably secuirty interest as between the debtor and the secured party
methods of perfection
- automatic
- possession
- control
- filing
- if certificate of title act applies, note the lien on the title
automatic perfection
usually a security interest is perfected when it has attached and when some additional step is taken, however sometimes it is automatic
- PMSI *** in consumer goods. ex D borrows from S to buy a new dining set, S obtains security interest in the set. this is automatic
- assignment of certain account or payment intangibles that does not in conjunction with other assignments to the same assignee transfer a significant part of the outstanding accounts
- a sale of payment intangible or a promissory note.
- a security interest created by the assignment of health care insuarnce receivable to the provider of the health care goods or services
- securty in investment property
- supporting obligations
- temporary automatic perfection
casual and isolated tests and perfection
no need to file if no one would think of filing
2. basically the courts look at the profession of the person who has to file