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2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 10 - Commercial Laws
RS 10:9-108 - Sufficiency of description

Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 10:9-108 (2018)
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§9-108. Sufficiency of description

(a) Sufficiency of description. Except as otherwise provided in Subsections (c), (d), and (e), a description of personal 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 this Title;

(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 this Title is an insufficient description of:

(1) a tort claim other than as a form of proceeds under R.S. 10:9-315;

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

(3) a life insurance policy;

(4) a judgment, other than as a form of proceeds under R.S. 10:9-315;

(5) a beneficial interest in a trust;

(6) an interest in an estate; or

(7) a collateral mortgage note.

Acts 1988, No. 528, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 1989, No. 135, §7, eff. Jan. 1, 1990; Acts 2001, No. 128, §1, eff. July 1, 2001.

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