409.105(1)(i) (i) "Instrument" means a negotiable instrument as defined in s. 403.104 or a certificated security as defined in s. 408.102 or any other writing which evidences a right to the payment of money and is not itself a security agreement or lease and is of a type which is in ordinary course of business transferred by delivery with any necessary endorsement or assignment.
409.105(1)(j) (j) "Mortgage" means a consensual interest created by a real estate mortgage, a trust deed on real estate, or the like.
409.105(1)(k) (k) An advance is made "pursuant to commitment" if the secured party has bound himself or herself to make it, whether or not a subsequent event of default or other event not within the secured party's control has relieved or may relieve the secured party from the secured party's obligation.
409.105(1)(L) (L) "Secured party" means a lender, seller or other person in whose favor there is a security interest, including a person to whom accounts or chattel paper have been sold. When the holders of obligations issued under an indenture of trust, equipment trust agreement or the like are represented by a trustee or other person, the representative is the secured party.
409.105(1)(m) (m) "Security agreement" means an agreement which creates or provides for a security interest.
409.105(1)(n) (n) "Transmitting utility" means any person primarily engaged in the railroad business, the electric or electronics communications transmission business, the transmission of goods by pipeline, or the transmission or the production and transmission of electricity, steam, gas or water, or the provision of sewer service.
409.105(2) (2) Other definitions applying to this chapter and the sections in which they appear are:
409.105(2)(a) (a) "Account" — s. 409.106.
409.105(2)(am) (am) "Attach" — s. 409.203.
409.105(2)(ar) (ar) "Construction mortgage" — s. 409.313 (1).
409.105(2)(b) (b) "Consumer goods" — s. 409.109 (1).
409.105(2)(d) (d) "Equipment" — s. 409.109 (2).
409.105(2)(e) (e) "Farm products" — s. 409.109 (3).
409.105(2)(em) (em) "Fixture" — s. 409.313.
409.105(2)(er) (er) "Fixture filing" — s. 409.313.
409.105(2)(f) (f) "General intangibles" — s. 409.106.
409.105(2)(g) (g) "Inventory" — s. 409.109 (4).
409.105(2)(h) (h) "Lien creditor" — s. 409.301 (3).
409.105(2)(i) (i) "Proceeds" — s. 409.306 (1).
409.105(2)(j) (j) "Purchase money security interest" — s. 409.107.
409.105(2)(k) (k) "United States" — s. 409.103.
409.105(3) (3) The following definitions in other chapters apply to this chapter:
409.105(3)(a) (a) "Check" — s. 403.104.
409.105(3)(b) (b) "Contract for sale" — s. 402.106.
409.105(3)(c) (c) "Holder in due course" — s. 403.302.
409.105(3)(d) (d) "Note" — s. 403.104.
409.105(3)(e) (e) "Sale" — s. 402.106.
409.105(4) (4) In addition ch. 401 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this chapter.
409.106 409.106 Definitions: "account"; "general intangibles". "Account" means any right to payment for goods sold or leased or for services rendered which is not evidenced by an instrument or chattel paper, whether or not it has been earned by performance. "General intangibles" means any personal property (including things in action) other than goods, accounts, chattel paper, documents, instruments and money. All rights to payment earned or unearned under a charter or other contract involving the use or hire of a vessel and all rights incident to the charter or contract are accounts.
409.106 History History: 1973 c. 215.
409.107 409.107 Definitions: "purchase money security interest". A security interest is a "purchase money security interest" to the extent that it is:
409.107(1) (1) Taken or retained by the seller of the collateral to secure all or part of its price; or
409.107(2) (2) Taken by a person who by making advances or incurring an obligation gives value to enable the debtor to acquire rights in or the use of collateral if such value is in fact so used.
409.108 409.108 When after-acquired collateral not security for antecedent debt. Where a secured party makes an advance, incurs an obligation, releases a perfected security interest, or otherwise gives new value which is to be secured in whole or in part by after-acquired property the secured party's security interest in the after-acquired collateral shall be deemed to be taken for new value and not as security for an antecedent debt if the debtor acquires the debtor's rights in such collateral either in the ordinary course of the debtor's business or under a contract of purchase made pursuant to the security agreement within a reasonable time after new value is given.
409.108 History History: 1991 a. 316.
409.108 Annotation Security interests in after-acquired property under the uniform commercial code. Skilton, 1974 WLR 925.
409.109 409.109 Classification of goods; "consumer goods"; "equipment"; "farm products"; "inventory". Goods are:
409.109(1) (1) "Consumer goods" if they are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family or household purposes;
409.109(2) (2) "Equipment" if they are used or bought for use primarily in business (including farming or a profession) or by a debtor who is a nonprofit organization or a governmental subdivision or agency or if the goods are not included in the definitions of inventory, farm products or consumer goods;
409.109(3) (3) "Farm products" if they are crops or livestock or supplies used or produced in farming operations or if they are products of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured states (such as ginned cotton, wool-clip, maple syrup, milk and eggs), and if they are in the possession of a debtor engaged in raising, fattening, grazing or other farming operations. If goods are farm products they are neither equipment nor inventory;
409.109(4) (4) "Inventory" if they are held by a person who holds them for sale or lease or to be furnished under contracts of service or if the person has so furnished them, or if they are raw materials, work in process or materials used or consumed in a business. Inventory of a person is not to be classified as the person's equipment.
409.109 History History: 1991 a. 316.
409.109 Annotation See note to 409.203, citing Milwaukee Mack Sales v. First Wis. Nat. Bank, 93 W (2d) 589, 287 NW (2d) 708 (1980).
409.109 Annotation Goods classified as "inventory" under (4) while in possession of debtor remain "inventory" while on lease status in possession of lessee. Voluntary Assign. of Watertown Tr. & Equip. Co. 94 W (2d) 622, 289 NW (2d) 288 (1980).
409.110 409.110 Sufficiency of description. For the purposes of this chapter any description of personal property or real estate is sufficient whether or not it is specific if it reasonably identifies what is described.
409.111 409.111 Applicability of bulk transfer laws. The creation of a security interest is not a bulk transfer under ch. 406 (see s. 406.103).
409.112 409.112 Where collateral is not owned by debtor. Unless otherwise agreed, when a secured party knows that collateral is owned by a person who is not the debtor, the owner of the collateral is entitled to receive from the secured party any surplus under s. 409.502 (2) or under s. 409.504 (1), and is not liable for the debt or for any deficiency after resale, and the owner of the collateral has the same right as the debtor:
409.112(1) (1) To receive statements under s. 409.208;
409.112(2) (2) To receive notice of and to object to a secured party's proposal to retain the collateral in satisfaction of the indebtedness under s. 409.505;
409.112(3) (3) To redeem the collateral under s. 409.506;
409.112(4) (4) To obtain injunctive or other relief under s. 409.507 (1); and
409.112(5) (5) To recover losses caused to the owner under s. 409.208 (2).
409.112 History History: 1991 a. 316.
409.113 409.113 Security interests arising under ch. 402 or 411. A security interest arising solely under ch. 402 or 411 is subject to the provisions of this chapter except that, to the extent that and so long as the debtor does not have or does not lawfully obtain possession of the goods, all of the following apply:
409.113(1) (1) No security agreement is necessary to make the security interest enforceable.
409.113(2) (2) No filing is required to perfect the security interest.
409.113(3) (3) The rights of the secured party on default by the debtor are governed by ch. 402 if a security interest arises solely under that chapter or by ch. 411 if a security interest arises solely under that chapter.
409.113 History History: 1991 a. 148.
409.114 409.114 Consignment.
409.114(1)(1) A person who delivers goods under a consignment which is not a security interest and who would be required to file under this chapter by s. 402.326 (3) (c) has priority over a secured party who is or becomes a creditor of the consignee and who would have a perfected security interest in the goods if they were the property of the consignee, and also has priority with respect to identifiable cash proceeds received on or before delivery of the goods to a buyer, if:
409.114(1)(a) (a) The consignor complies with the filing provision on sales with respect to consignments (s. 402.326 (3) (c)) before the consignee receives possession of the goods; and
409.114(1)(b) (b) The consignor gives notification in writing to the holder of the security interest if the holder has filed a financing statement covering the same types of goods before the date of the filing made by the consignor; and
409.114(1)(c) (c) The holder of the security interest receives the notification before the consignee receives possession of the goods; and
409.114(1)(d) (d) The notification states that the consignor expects to deliver goods on consignment to the consignee, describing the goods by item or type.
409.114(2) (2) In the case of a consignment which is not a security interest and in which the requirements of sub. (1) have not been met, a person who delivers goods to another is subordinate to a person who would have a perfected security interest in the goods if they were the property of the debtor.
409.114 History History: 1973 c. 215; 1981 c. 390 s. 252.
409.114 Annotation Legislative Council Note, 1973: Sub. (1) (c) was amended by the Special Committee to delete the words "within 5 years" which appear after "notification" in the official text. Under s. 409.403 (2), as amended by this proposal, the effectiveness of a filed financing statement lapses at the end of 5 years unless a continuation statement is filed prior to lapse. For this reason the official text requires that a new notice be made under this section and s. 409.312 (3) (c) every 5 years even though holders of conflicting security interests received notice when the financing statement was originally filed and will have constructive notice upon the filing of a continuation statement. The Special Committee felt this requirement of new notice every 5 years to be both unreasonable and unnecessary. (Bill 177-S)
VALIDITY OF SECURITY AGREEMENT
AND RIGHTS OF PARTIES THERETO
409.201 409.201 General validity of security interest. Except as otherwise provided by chs. 401 to 411 a security agreement is effective according to its terms between the parties, against purchasers of the collateral and against creditors. Nothing in this chapter validates any charge or practice illegal under any statute or regulation thereunder governing usury, small loans, retail instalment sales, or the like, or under chs. 421 to 427 and 429, or extends the application of any such statute or regulation to any transaction not otherwise subject thereto.
409.201 History History: 1971 c. 239; 1979 c. 89; 1991 a. 148, 304, 315; 1995 a. 329.
409.202 409.202 Title to collateral immaterial. Each provision of this chapter with regard to rights, obligations and remedies applies whether title to collateral is in the secured party or in the debtor.
409.202 Annotation A person with a voidable title in property, having the power to pass title to a good faith purchaser under s. 402.403, may transfer a security interest in that property. Return of Property in State v. Pippin, 176 W (2d) 418, 500 NW (2d) 407 (Ct. App. 1993).
409.203 409.203 Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds; formal requisites.
409.203(1) (1) Subject to s. 404.210 on the security interest of a collecting bank, s. 408.321 on security interests in securities and s. 409.113 on a security interest arising under ch. 402 or 411, a security interest is not enforceable against the debtor or 3rd parties with respect to the collateral and does not attach unless:
409.203(1)(a) (a) The collateral is in the possession of the secured party pursuant to agreement, or the debtor has signed a security agreement which contains a description of the collateral and in addition, when the security interest covers crops growing or to be grown or timber to be cut, a description of the land concerned;
409.203(1)(b) (b) Value has been given; and
409.203(1)(c) (c) The debtor has rights in the collateral.
409.203(2) (2) A security agreement signed by one spouse is signed by the debtor under this section if that spouse acting alone has the right under s. 766.51 to manage and control the collateral, unless a marital property agreement or court decree which is binding on the secured party under s. 766.55 (4m) or 766.56 (2) (c) provides otherwise.
409.203(3) (3) A security interest attaches when it becomes enforceable against the debtor with respect to the collateral. Attachment occurs as soon as all of the events specified in sub. (1) have taken place unless explicit agreement postpones the time of attaching.
409.203(4) (4) Unless otherwise agreed a security agreement gives the secured party the rights to proceeds under s. 409.306.
409.203(5) (5) A transaction, although subject to this chapter, is also subject to chs. 138, 421 to 427 and 429 and s. 182.025, or any other similar statute which may be applicable to the particular transaction, and in the case of conflict between this chapter and any such statute, such statute controls. Failure to comply with any applicable statute has only the effect which is specified therein.
409.203 Annotation Security interest in all of trucking company's "equipment" reasonably identified trucks as collateral. Milwaukee Mack Sales v. First Wis. Nat. Bank, 93 W (2d) 589, 287 NW (2d) 708 (1980).
409.203 Annotation A provision in an instrument prohibiting transfer of the instrument did not render a security interest in the instrument unenforceable under sub. (1) (c). Belke v. M & I First National Bank of Stevens Point, 189 W (2d) 385, 525 NW (2d) 737 (Ct. App. 1994).
409.204 409.204 After-acquired property; future advances.
409.204(1)(1) Except as provided in sub. (2), a security agreement may provide that any or all obligations covered by the security agreement are to be secured by after-acquired collateral.
409.204(2) (2) No security interest attaches under an after-acquired property clause to consumer goods other than accessions under s. 409.314 when given as additional security unless the debtor acquires rights in them within 10 days after the secured party gives value.
409.204(3) (3) Obligations covered by a security agreement may include future advances or other value whether or not the advances or value are given pursuant to commitment (s. 409.105 (1)).
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