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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77642</law_id><section_number>8.2A-307</section_number><catch_line>Priority of liens arising by attachment or levy on, security interests in, and other claims to goods</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.2A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Leases</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Effect of Lease Contract</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law" href="/8.2A-306/">8.2A-306</a>, a <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> of a lessee takes subject to the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span>. <a id="paragraph-278513" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-307/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section and in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law" href="/8.2A-306/">8.2A-306</a> and <a class="law" title="Special rights of creditors" href="/8.2A-308/">8.2A-308</a>, a <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> of a lessor takes subject to the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> unless the <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> holds a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> that attached to the goods before the lease <span class="dictionary">contract</span> became enforceable. <a id="paragraph-278514" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-307/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Interests that take priority over or take free of security interest or agricultural lien" href="/8.9A-317/">8.9A-317</a>, <a class="law" title="Licensee of general intangible and lessee of goods in ordinary course of business" href="/8.9A-321/">8.9A-321</a>, and <a class="law" title="Future advances" href="/8.9A-323/">8.9A-323</a>, a lessee takes a leasehold interest subject to a security interest held by a <span class="dictionary">creditor</span> of the lessor. <a id="paragraph-278515" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2A-307/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1991, c. 536; 2000, c. 1007.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
