Sufficiency of descriptions

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  • (a) Sufficiency of description. Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c), (d), and (e), a description of personal or real property is sufficient, whether or not it is specific, if it reasonably identifies what is described.

  • (b) Examples of reasonable identification. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a description of collateral reasonably identifies the collateral if it identifies the collateral by:

    • (1) specific listing;

    • (2) Category;

    • (3) except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a type of collateral defined in Title 11A, Virgin Islands Code (the Uniform Commercial Code);

    • (4) quantity;

    • (5) computational or allocational formula or procedure; or

    • (6) except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), any other method, if the identity of the collateral is objectively determinable.

  • (c) Supergeneric description not sufficient. 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.

  • (d) Investment property. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (e), a description of a security entitlement, securities account, or commodity account is sufficient if it describes:

    • (1) the collateral by those terms or as investment property; or

    • (2) the underlying financial asset or commodity contract.

  • (e) When description by type insufficient. A description only by type of collateral defined in title 11A, Virgin Islands Code (the Uniform Commercial Code) is an insufficient description of:

    • (1) a commercial tort claim; or

    • (2) in a consumer transaction, consumer goods, a security entitlement, a securities account, or a commodity account.


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