Chattel paper is a legal term used to describe a type of written document that represents both a monetary obligation and a security interest in personal property.
As such, chattel paper must show the following: A monetary obligation from Party A to Party B, and. A security interest or other interest retained in the property by Party B.
Chattel paper is a legal document that records a monetary obligation from one party to another and a security interest used in secured transactions to sell property on credit while retaining some interest in the property. (
What Is Chattel? Chattel is personal property that is movable between locations, as opposed to real property, which has a fixed location.
Although the UPC was intended for adoption by all 50 states, the original 1969 version of the code was adopted in its entirety by only fifteen states: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah.
The Minnesota legislature made very few changes from the 1962 official text in adopting the Minnesota UCC.
UCC § 1-103(a); see, e.g., Point of Law (POL). All 50 states have adopted the UCC and that adoption is generally uniform.
While largely successful at achieving this ambitious goal, some U.S. jurisdictions (e.g., Louisiana and Puerto Rico) have not adopted all of the articles contained in the UCC, while other U.S. jurisdictions (e.g., American Samoa) have not adopted any articles in the UCC.
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code requires a financing statement to include the name of the debtor. It is important to set forth the exact legal name of the debtor in any filings that are made.
Article 9 of the UCC governs secured transactions, including procedures for settling debts. Under Article 9, if a debtor defaults on debt, the creditor may repossess the secured property.