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Vanderbilt Law Review

1964

Tennessee law

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Commercial Transactions And Personal Property--1963 Tennessee Survey, John A. Spanogle, Jr. Jun 1964

Commercial Transactions And Personal Property--1963 Tennessee Survey, John A. Spanogle, Jr.

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Obviously, the biggest event in the Tennessee law of commercial transactions this year was the enactment of the Uniform Commercial Code [hereinafter referred to as the U.C.C.]. That statute became effective in this state on July 1, 1964. Its effect on the prior Tennessee law is discussed in great detail elsewhere in this issue,' and need not be re-examined here. It should also be pointed out that the enactment of the U.C.C.required some modifications in the criminal statutes relating to security agreements. In particular, executing a second security agreement covering personalty, without disclosing a prior security agreement covering the same …


Tennessee Law And The Sales Article Of The Uniform Commercial Code, W. Harold Bigham Jun 1964

Tennessee Law And The Sales Article Of The Uniform Commercial Code, W. Harold Bigham

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Although much of the interest engendered by the Uniform Commercial Code has centered around Article 9--Secured Transactions,and although Article 9 has been described as the heart of the Code, Article 2--Sales--is half again as long, is in many ways more iconoclastic,' and has precipitated perhaps more criticism than any of the other articles of the Code. Article 2 contains some innovations which are, at least upon initial impression, startling departures from traditional concepts of sales law, and it is therefore not surprising that there has been a spate of legal literature published on various aspects of this article. Since limitations …


Tennessee Law And The Secured Transactions Article Of The Uniform Commercial Code, Charles H. White Jun 1964

Tennessee Law And The Secured Transactions Article Of The Uniform Commercial Code, Charles H. White

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The Uniform Commercial Code in its treatment of personal property security represents a sincere and conscious effort on the part of its draftsmen, authors and sponsors to update and modernize commercial law so as to be able to keep abreast of today's space-age economy. It is submitted that once a familiarity with the new terms,concepts, and theories is acquired, the average practitioner should not encounter any serious difficulty operating under the Uniform Commercial Code and will, in all probability, discover that in most instances the ideas are the same, although perhaps a little hard to recognize at first examination.