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. Groping Along Between Things Real And Things Personal: Defining Fixtures In Law And Policy In The Ucc, 78 U. Cincinnati L. Rev. 1437 (2010), Marc L. Roark
Marc L. Roark
The law of fixtures under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is helplessly tied to the various state laws dictating real estate. The natural impact of explicitly tying a UCC doctrine to multiple state law variations is loss of uniformity. At the center of the fixtures discussion in the UCC is a definition that does not define, and more importantly, does not limit doctrinal extension. Because the UCC offers a nondefining definition, this Article considers the function of the fixtures definition. Specifically, this Article argues that the fixtures definition in UCC Section 9-102(a)(41) performs a function just as important as defining--it …