§ 9.501 Filing Office
§ 9.502 Contents of Financing Statement; Record of Mortgage as Financing Statement; Time of Filing Financing Statement
§ 9.503 Name of Debtor and Secured Party
§ 9.504 Indication of Collateral
§ 9.505 Filing and Compliance With Other Statutes and Treaties for Consignments, Leases, Other Bailments, and Other Transactions
§ 9.506 Effect of Errors or Omissions
§ 9.507 Effect of Certain Events On Effectiveness of Financing Statement
§ 9.508 Effectiveness of Financing Statement If New Debtor Becomes Bound by Security Agreement
§ 9.509 Persons Entitled to File a Record
§ 9.510 Effectiveness of Filed Record
§ 9.511 Secured Party of Record
§ 9.512 Amendment of Financing Statement
§ 9.513 Termination Statement
§ 9.514 Assignment of Powers of Secured Party of Record
§ 9.515 Duration and Effectiveness of Financing Statement; Effect of Lapsed Financing Statement
§ 9.516 What Constitutes Filing; Effectiveness of Filing
§ 9.517 Effect of Indexing Errors
§ 9.518 Claim Concerning Inaccurate or Wrongfully Filed Record
§ 9.5185 Fraudulent Filing
§ 9.519 Numbering, Maintaining, and Indexing Records; Communicating Information Provided in Records
§ 9.520 Acceptance and Refusal to Accept Record
§ 9.5211 Uniform Form of Written Financing Statement and Amendment
§ 9.522 Maintenance and Destruction of Records
§ 9.523 Information From Filing Office; Sale or License of Records
§ 9.524 Delay by Filing Office
§ 9.525 Fees
§ 9.526 Filing-Office Rules
§ 9.527 Duty to Report
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Terms Used In Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 9 > Subchapter E - Filing

  • Asset forfeiture: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Comptroller: means the state comptroller of public accounts. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Population: means the population shown by the most recent federal decennial census. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
  • Succeeding: means immediately following. See Texas Government Code 312.011
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.