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Clear Title For Farm Products: Congress And The Arkansas Legislature Attempt To Solve A Troublesome Problem, D. Fenton Adams

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Preserving Purchase Money Security Interests And Allocating Payments, Lynda Kay Chandler

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note explores the rationale underlying the courts' conflicting decisions in light of the purposes of the UCC. It concludes that the language of the UCC and its goals of uniformity and simplification require that a PMSI should not be entirely destroyed because a creditor also has a security interest in items the debtor acquired after the purchase money transaction or because a creditor extends additional credit. The best solution is to permit the creditor to retain a PMSI, to the extent of the purchase money loan, in those goods that the creditor's loan helped to purchase.

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The Collision Of Tort And Contract In The Construction Industry, Murray H. Wright, Edward E. Nicholas Iii

University of Richmond Law Review

Over the past two decades, several courts have allowed construction industry plaintiffs to assert tort claims to recover for purely economic losses (i.e. other than injury to person or property) from other participants in the construction process. Parties assert tort claims, instead of or in addition to contract claims, to take advantage of the more liberal tort damage rules and, probably more importantly, to escape unfavorable contract provisions. This article briefly discusses the different origins and goals of tort and contract law. It then reviews some of the decisions allowing recovery of purely economic losses in tort as well as …

Uniform Commercial Code: Stopping Collection Of An Item Deposited With An Insolvent Depositary Bank, Shelia Tims

Oklahoma Law Review

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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Commercial Law, Michael J. Herbert

University of Richmond Law Review

It has been a fairly busy year for Commercial Law in Virginia courts, but not in the legislature. This may not last; there are already legislative efforts underway to extend the coverage of Virginia's Uniform Commercial Code (the "Code") to electronic fund transfers and personal property leasing. If those efforts are successful, the General Assembly will soon have on its hands the considerable task of evaluating the first major overhaul of the Code in a decade.

Uniform Commercial Code: Disclaiming The Express Warranty In Computer Contracts--Taking The Byte Out Of The Ucc, Barbara Chretien-Dar

Oklahoma Law Review

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Notice Problems In The Double-Pledge Situation: Can A Junior Pledgee Give Notice Of A Security Interest To A Pledgee-Bailee Under Section 9-305 Of The Uniform Commercial Code?, Sheila W. Sawyer

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.