Code of the District of Columbia
Official codified DC law sourced from the DC Council Open Law Library (public domain). 21,163 sections indexed.
- § 28:7-205Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases.
- § 28:7-206Termination of storage at warehouse’s option.
- § 28:7-207Goods must be kept separate; fungible goods.
- § 28:7-208Altered warehouse receipts.
- § 28:7-209Lien of warehouse.
- § 28:7-210Enforcement of warehouse’s lien.
- § 28:7-301Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription; “Said to contain”; “Shipper’s weight, load, and count”; improper handling.
- § 28:7-302Through bills of lading and similar documents of title.
- § 28:7-303Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions.
- § 28:7-304Tangible bills of lading in a set.
- § 28:7-305Destination bills.
- § 28:7-306Altered bills of lading.
- § 28:7-307Lien of carrier.
- § 28:7-308Enforcement of carrier’s lien.
- § 28:7-309Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier’s liability.
- § 28:7-401Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer.
- § 28:7-402Duplicate document of title; overissue.
- § 28:7-403Obligation of bailee to deliver; excuse.
- § 28:7-404No liability for good-faith delivery pursuant to document of title.
- § 28:7-501Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation.
- § 28:7-502Rights acquired by due negotiation.
- § 28:7-503Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases.
- § 28:7-504Rights acquired in absence of due negotiation; effect of diversion; stoppage of delivery.
- § 28:7-505Indorser not guarantor for other parties.
- § 28:7-506Delivery without indorsement: right to compel indorsement.
- § 28:7-507Warranties on negotiation or delivery of document of title.
- § 28:7-508Warranties of collecting bank as to documents of title.
- § 28:7-509Adequate compliance with commercial contract.
- § 28:7-601Lost, stolen, or destroyed documents of title.
- § 28:7-602Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of title.
- § 28:7-603Conflicting claims; interpleader.
- § 28:7-701Applicability.
- § 28:7-702Savings clause.
- § 28:8-101Short title.
- § 28:8-102Definitions.
- § 28:8-103Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets.
- § 28:8-104Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.
- § 28:8-105Notice of adverse claim.
- § 28:8-106Control.
- § 28:8-107Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective.
- § 28:8-108Warranties in direct holding.
- § 28:8-109Warranties in indirect holding.
- § 28:8-110Applicability; choice of law.
- § 28:8-111Clearing corporation rules.
- § 28:8-112Creditor’s legal process.
- § 28:8-113Statute of frauds inapplicable.
- § 28:8-114Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.
- § 28:8-115Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.
- § 28:8-116Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.
- § 28:8-201Issuer.
- § 28:8-202Issuer’s responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.
- § 28:8-203Staleness as notice of defect or defense.
- § 28:8-204Effect of issuer’s restriction on transfer.
- § 28:8-205Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.
- § 28:8-206Completion or alteration of security certificate.
- § 28:8-207Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.
- § 28:8-208Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.
- § 28:8-209Issuer’s lien.
- § 28:8-210Overissue.
- § 28:8-301Delivery.
- § 28:8-302Rights of purchaser.
- § 28:8-303Protected purchaser.
- § 28:8-304Indorsement.
- § 28:8-305Instruction.
- § 28:8-306Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement, or instruction.
- § 28:8-307Purchaser’s right to requisites for registration of transfer.
- § 28:8-401Duty of issuer to register transfer.
- § 28:8-402Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective.
- § 28:8-403Demand that issuer not register transfer.
- § 28:8-404Wrongful registration.
- § 28:8-405Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
- § 28:8-406Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
- § 28:8-407Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar.
- § 28:8-408Statements of uncertificated securities.
- § 28:8-501Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary.
- § 28:8-502Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder.
- § 28:8-503Property interest of entitlement holder in financial asset held by securities intermediary.
- § 28:8-504Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.
- § 28:8-505Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.
- § 28:8-506Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder.
- § 28:8-507Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.
- § 28:8-508Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder’s position to other form of security holding.
- § 28:8-509Specification of duties of securities intermediary by other statute or regulation; manner of performance of duties of securities intermediary and exercise of rights of entitlement holder.
- § 28:8-510Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.
- § 28:8-511Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.
- § 28:8-601Savings clause.
- § 28:9-101Short title.
- § 28:9-102Definitions and index of definitions.
- § 28:9-103Purchase-money security interest; application of payments; burden of establishing.
- § 28:9-104Control of deposit account.
- § 28:9-105Control of electronic chattel paper.
- § 28:9-106Control of investment property.
- § 28:9-107Control of letter-of-credit right.
- § 28:9-108Sufficiency of description.
- § 28:9-109Scope.
- § 28:9-110Security interests arising under Article 2 or 2A.
- § 28:9-201General effectiveness of security agreement.
- § 28:9-202Title to collateral immaterial.
- § 28:9-203Attachment and enforceability of security interest; proceeds; supporting obligations; formal requisites.
- § 28:9-204After-acquired property; future advances.
- § 28:9-205Use or disposition of collateral permissible.
- § 28:9-206Security interest arising in purchase or delivery of financial asset.
- § 28:9-207Rights and duties of secured party having possession or control of collateral.
- § 28:9-208Additional duties of secured party having control of collateral.
- § 28:9-209Duties of secured party if account debtor has been notified of assignment.
- § 28:9-210Request for accounting; request regarding list of collateral or statement of account.
- § 28:9-301Law governing perfection and priority of security interests.
- § 28:9-302Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens.
- § 28:9-303Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in goods covered by a certificate of title.
- § 28:9-304Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in deposit accounts.
- § 28:9-305Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in investment property.
- § 28:9-306Law governing perfection and priority of security interests in letter-of-credit rights.
- § 28:9-307Location of debtor.
- § 28:9-308When security interest or agricultural lien is perfected; continuity of perfection.
- § 28:9-309Security interest perfected upon attachment.
- § 28:9-310When filing required to perfect security interest or agricultural lien; security interests and agricultural liens to which filing provisions do not apply.
- § 28:9-311Perfection of security interests in property subject to certain statutes, regulations, and treaties.
- § 28:9-312Perfection of security interests in chattel paper, deposit accounts, documents, goods covered by documents, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, and money; perfection by permissive filing; temporary perfection without filing or transfer of possession.
- § 28:9-313When possession by or delivery to secured party perfects security interest without filing.
- § 28:9-314Perfection by control.
- § 28:9-315Secured party’s rights on disposition of collateral and in proceeds.
- § 28:9-316Effect of change in governing law.
- § 28:9-317Interests that take priority over or take free of unperfected security interest or agricultural lien.
- § 28:9-318No interest retained in right to payment that is sold; rights and title of seller of account or chattel paper with respect to creditors and purchasers.
- § 28:9-319Rights and title of consignee with respect to creditors and purchasers.
- § 28:9-320Buyer of goods.
- § 28:9-321Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business.
- § 28:9-322Priorities among conflicting security interests in and agricultural liens on same collateral.
- § 28:9-323Future advances.
- § 28:9-324Priority of purchase-money security interests.
- § 28:9-325Priority of security interests in transferred collateral.
- § 28:9-326Priority of security interests created by new debtor.
- § 28:9-327Priority of security interests in deposit account.
- § 28:9-328Priority of security interests in investment property.
- § 28:9-329Priority of security interests in letter-of-credit right.
- § 28:9-330Priority of purchaser of chattel paper or instrument.
- § 28:9-331Priority of rights of purchasers of instruments, documents, and securities under other articles; priority of interests in financial assets and security entitlements under Article 8.
- § 28:9-332Transfer of money; transfer of funds from deposit account.
- § 28:9-333Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law.
- § 28:9-334Priority of security interests in fixtures and crops.
- § 28:9-335Accessions.
- § 28:9-336Commingled goods.
- § 28:9-337Priority of security interests in goods covered by certificate of title.
- § 28:9-338Priority of security interest or agricultural lien perfected by filed financing statement providing certain incorrect information.
- § 28:9-339Priority subject to subordination.
- § 28:9-340Effectiveness of right of recoupment or set-off against deposit account.
- § 28:9-341Bank’s rights and duties with respect to deposit account.
- § 28:9-342Bank’s right to refuse to enter into or disclose existence of control agreement.
- § 28:9-401Alienability of debtor’s rights.
- § 28:9-402Secured party not obligated on contract of debtor or in tort.
- § 28:9-403Agreement not to assert defenses against assignee.
- § 28:9-404Rights acquired by assignee; claims and defenses against assignee.
- § 28:9-405Modification of assigned contract.
- § 28:9-406Discharge of account debtor; notification of assignment; identification and proof of assignment; restrictions on assignment of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, and promissory notes ineffective.
- § 28:9-407Restrictions on creation or enforcement of security interest in leasehold interest or in lessor’s residual interest.
- § 28:9-408Restrictions on assignment of promissory notes, health-care-insurance receivables, and certain general intangibles ineffective.
- § 28:9-409Restrictions on assignment of letter-of-credit rights ineffective.
- § 28:9-501Filing office.
- § 28:9-502Contents of financing statement; record of mortgage as financing statement; time of filing financing statement.
- § 28:9-503Name of debtor and secured party.
- § 28:9-504Indication of collateral.
- § 28:9-505Filing and compliance with other statutes and treaties for consignments, leases, other bailments, and other transactions.
- § 28:9-506Effect of errors or omissions.
- § 28:9-507Effect of certain events on effectiveness of financing statement.
- § 28:9-508Effectiveness of financing statement if new debtor becomes bound by security agreement.
- § 28:9-509Persons entitled to file a record.
- § 28:9-510Effectiveness of filed record.
- § 28:9-511Secured party of record.
- § 28:9-512Amendment of financing statement.
- § 28:9-513Termination statement.
- § 28:9-514Assignment of powers of secured party of record.
- § 28:9-515Duration and effectiveness of financing statement; effect of lapsed financing statement.
- § 28:9-516What constitutes filing; effectiveness of filing.
- § 28:9-517Effect of indexing errors.
- § 28:9-518Claim concerning inaccurate or wrongfully filed record.
- § 28:9-519Numbering, maintaining, and indexing records; communicating information provided in records.
- § 28:9-520Acceptance and refusal to accept record.
- § 28:9-521Uniform form of written financing statement and amendment.
- § 28:9-522Maintenance and destruction of records.
- § 28:9-523Information from filing office; sale or license of records.
- § 28:9-524Delay by filing office.
- § 28:9-525Fees.
- § 28:9-526Filing-office rules.
- § 28:9-527Duty to report.
- § 28:9-601Rights after default; judicial enforcement; consignor or buyer of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes.
- § 28:9-602Waiver and variance of rights and duties.
- § 28:9-603Agreement on standards concerning rights and duties.
- § 28:9-604Procedure if security agreement covers real property or fixtures.
- § 28:9-605Unknown debtor or secondary obligor.
- § 28:9-606Time of default for agricultural lien.
- § 28:9-607Collection and enforcement by secured party.
- § 28:9-608Application of proceeds of collection or enforcement; liability for deficiency and right to surplus.
- § 28:9-609Secured party’s right to take possession after default.
- § 28:9-610Disposition of collateral after default.
- § 28:9-611Notification before disposition of collateral.
- § 28:9-612Timeliness of notification before disposition of collateral.
- § 28:9-613Contents and form of notification before disposition of collateral: general.
- § 28:9-614Contents and form of notification before disposition of collateral: consumer-goods transaction.
- § 28:9-615Application of proceeds of disposition; liability for deficiency and right to surplus.
- § 28:9-616Explanation of calculation of surplus or deficiency.
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