Texas Business and Commerce Code 2.402 – Rights of Seller’s Creditors Against Sold Goods
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(a) Except as provided in Subsections (b) and (c), rights of unsecured creditors of the seller with respect to goods which have been identified to a contract for sale are subject to the buyer‘s rights to recover the goods under this chapter (Sections 2.502 and 2.716).
(b) A creditor of the seller may treat a sale or an identification of goods to a contract for sale as void if as against him a retention of possession by the seller is fraudulent under any rule of law of the state where the goods are situated, except that retention of possession in good faith and current course of trade by a merchant-seller for a commercially reasonable time after a sale or identification is not fraudulent.
Terms Used In Texas Business and Commerce Code 2.402
- Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 2.103
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 2.106
- Rule: includes regulation. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Texas Business and Commerce Code 2.103
(c) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to impair the rights of creditors of the seller
(1) under the provisions of the chapter on Secured Transactions (Chapter 9); or
(2) where identification to the contract or delivery is made not in current course of trade but in satisfaction of or as security for a pre-existing claim for money, security or the like and is made under circumstances which under any rule of law of the state where the goods are situated would apart from this chapter constitute the transaction a fraudulent transfer or voidable preference.