Each day, thousands of lessees enter into contracts under which they lease either real or personal property. Under the majority of these contracts, the lessee agrees to pay (and does pay) a security deposit to the lessor. The lessor typically agrees to refund the deposit at the conclusion of the lease term if the lessee fully performs its obligations under the lease contract. Is Article 9 relevant to this transaction? Has the lessor taken a security interest in the lessee\u27s property to secure the lessee\u27s obligations under the lease contract? In Part I, we highlight two opinions representative of the majority of case decisions that have treated lessee security deposits as a debt. In Part II, we briefly explore the extent to whic...
Unlike real property foreclosures, which are the subject of detailed statutory regulation, Part 5 of...
This article discusses and analyzes a California Supreme Court case which held that restitution ...
Two-tiered security interests arise when a grantor grants a security interestin goods and then lease...
Each day, thousands of lessees enter into contracts under which they lease either real or personal p...
Part I of this article critiques this strand of decisions (referred to collectively throughout the a...
Assume that Jane Doe leases an automobile from a General Motors dealer, pursuant to a lease contract...
Despite the fact that Article 9 is a much more comprehensive personal property security statute than...
In 1963, Missouri adopted the Uniform Commercial Code, including Article 9, which integrated the exi...
Although leases, consignments, and sales of accounts and chattel paper annually result in commercial...
There is confusion in the rental market over the legal significance of holding deposits, which are r...
The principal focus of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has always dealt with transact...
This Article explains the provisions of the UARA and encourages its prompt adoption in states that p...
The Canadian provincial and territory Personal Property Security Acts all provide that an unperfecte...
Leases have priority over mortgages and other security devices if they were entered into prior to th...
The article examines whether and to what extent sections 13(1), 14 and 50(2)(a) of the Consumer Prot...
Unlike real property foreclosures, which are the subject of detailed statutory regulation, Part 5 of...
This article discusses and analyzes a California Supreme Court case which held that restitution ...
Two-tiered security interests arise when a grantor grants a security interestin goods and then lease...
Each day, thousands of lessees enter into contracts under which they lease either real or personal p...
Part I of this article critiques this strand of decisions (referred to collectively throughout the a...
Assume that Jane Doe leases an automobile from a General Motors dealer, pursuant to a lease contract...
Despite the fact that Article 9 is a much more comprehensive personal property security statute than...
In 1963, Missouri adopted the Uniform Commercial Code, including Article 9, which integrated the exi...
Although leases, consignments, and sales of accounts and chattel paper annually result in commercial...
There is confusion in the rental market over the legal significance of holding deposits, which are r...
The principal focus of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) has always dealt with transact...
This Article explains the provisions of the UARA and encourages its prompt adoption in states that p...
The Canadian provincial and territory Personal Property Security Acts all provide that an unperfecte...
Leases have priority over mortgages and other security devices if they were entered into prior to th...
The article examines whether and to what extent sections 13(1), 14 and 50(2)(a) of the Consumer Prot...
Unlike real property foreclosures, which are the subject of detailed statutory regulation, Part 5 of...
This article discusses and analyzes a California Supreme Court case which held that restitution ...
Two-tiered security interests arise when a grantor grants a security interestin goods and then lease...