Ohio Code 1336.03 – Giving value
(A) Value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied, but value does not include an unperformed promise made otherwise than in the ordinary course of the business of the promisor to furnish support to the debtor or another person.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1336.03
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- Asset: means property of a debtor, but does not include any of the following:
(1) Property to the extent it is encumbered by a valid lien;
(2) Property to the extent it generally is exempt under nonbankruptcy law, including, but not limited to, section 2329. See Ohio Code 1336.01
- Debt: means liability on a claim. See Ohio Code 1336.01
- Debtor: means a person who is liable on a claim. See Ohio Code 1336.01
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Ohio Code 1336.01
- Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Ohio Code 1336.01
- Transfer: means every direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, and voluntary or involuntary method of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset, and includes payment of money, release, lease, and creation of a lien or other encumbrance. See Ohio Code 1336.01
(B) For the purposes of division (A)(2) of section 1336.04 and division (A) of section 1336.05 of the Revised Code, a person gives a reasonably equivalent value if the person acquires an interest of the debtor in an asset pursuant to a regularly conducted, noncollusive foreclosure sale or execution of power of sale for the acquisition or disposition of the interest of the debtor upon default under a mortgage, deed of trust, or security agreement.
(C) A transfer is made for present value if the exchange between the debtor and the transferee is intended by them to be contemporaneous and in fact is substantially contemporaneous.