Sufficiency of description.

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  • (1) Except as otherwise provided in Subsections (3), (4), and (5), a description of personal or real property is sufficient, whether or not it is specific, if it reasonably identifies what is described.
  • (2) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (4), a description of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the collateral by:
    • (a) specific listing;
    • (b) category;
    • (c) except as otherwise provided in Subsection (5), a type of collateral defined in this title;
    • (d) quantity;
    • (e) computational or allocational formula or procedure; or
    • (f) except as otherwise provided in Subsection (3), any other method, if the identity of the collateral is objectively determinable.
  • (3) A description of collateral as "all the debtor's assets" or "all the debtor's personal property" or using words of similar import does not reasonably identify the collateral.
  • (4) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (5), a description of a security entitlement, securities account, or commodity account is sufficient if it describes:
    • (a) the collateral by those terms or as investment property; or
    • (b) the underlying financial asset or commodity contract.
  • (5) A description only by type of collateral defined in this title is an insufficient description of:
    • (a) a commercial tort claim; or
    • (b) in a consumer transaction, consumer goods, a security entitlement, a securities account, or a commodity account.




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