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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62875</law_id><section_number>8.9A-330</section_number><catch_line>Priority of purchaser of chattel paper or instrument</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>59.1-494</reference><reference>8.9A-322</reference><reference>8.9A-324</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.9A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Secured Transactions</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Perfection and Priority</unit><unit label="subpart" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Priority</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Purchaser&#x2019;s priority; security interest claimed merely as proceeds. A purchaser of chattel paper has priority over a security interest in the chattel paper which is claimed merely as proceeds of inventory subject to a security interest if: <a id="paragraph-229183" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> in good faith and in the ordinary course of the purchaser&#x2019;s business, the purchaser gives new value, takes <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of each authoritative tangible copy of the record evidencing the chattel paper, and obtains control under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Control of electronic copy of record evidencing chattel paper" href="/8.9A-105/">8.9A-105</a> of each authoritative electronic copy of the record evidencing the chattel paper; and <a id="paragraph-229184" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the authoritative copies of the record evidencing the chattel paper do not indicate that the chattel paper has been assigned to an identified assignee other than the purchaser. <a id="paragraph-229185" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Purchaser&#x2019;s priority; other security interests. A purchaser of chattel paper has priority over a security interest in the chattel paper which is claimed other than merely as proceeds of inventory subject to a security interest if the purchaser gives new value, takes <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of each authoritative tangible copy of the record evidencing the chattel paper, and obtains control under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Control of electronic copy of record evidencing chattel paper" href="/8.9A-105/">8.9A-105</a> of each authoritative electronic copy evidencing the chattel paper in good faith, in the ordinary course of the purchaser&#x2019;s business, and without knowledge that the purchase violates the rights of the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span>. <a id="paragraph-229186" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> Chattel paper purchaser&#x2019;s priority in proceeds. Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Priority of security interests in deposit account" href="/8.9A-327/">8.9A-327</a>, a purchaser having priority in chattel paper under subsection (a) or (b) also has priority in proceeds of the chattel paper to the extent that: <a id="paragraph-229187" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Section <a class="law" title="Priorities among conflicting security interests in and agricultural liens on same collateral" href="/8.9A-322/">8.9A-322</a> provides for priority in the proceeds; or <a id="paragraph-229188" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#c1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> the proceeds consist of the specific goods covered by the chattel paper or cash proceeds of the specific goods, even if the purchaser&#x2019;s security interest in the proceeds is unperfected. <a id="paragraph-229189" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#c2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> Instrument purchaser&#x2019;s priority. Except as otherwise provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Priority of rights of purchasers of controllable accounts, controllable electronic records, controllable payment intangibles, documents, instruments and securities under other titles, priority of interests in financial assets and security entitlements and protection against assertion of claims under Titles 8.8A and 8.12" href="/8.9A-331/">8.9A-331</a> (a), a purchaser of an instrument has priority over a security interest in the instrument perfected by a method other than <span class="dictionary">possession</span> if the purchaser gives value and takes <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of the instrument in good faith and without knowledge that the purchase violates the rights of the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span>. <a id="paragraph-229190" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="e"><p><span class="prefix-number">e.</span> Holder of purchase-money security interest gives new value. For purposes of subsections (a) and (b), the holder of a purchase-money security interest in inventory gives new value for chattel paper constituting proceeds of the inventory. <a id="paragraph-229191" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#e"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="f"><p><span class="prefix-number">f.</span> Indication of assignment gives knowledge. For purposes of subsections (b) and (d), if the authoritative copies of the record evidencing chattel paper or an instrument indicate that the chattel paper or instrument has been assigned to an identified secured <span class="dictionary">party</span> other than the purchaser, a purchaser of the chattel paper or instrument has knowledge that the purchase violates the rights of the secured <span class="dictionary">party</span>. <a id="paragraph-229192" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-330/#f"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 6-558, 6-559; 1964, c. 219, &#xA7; 8.9-308; 1973, c. 509; 2000, c. 1007; 2024, c. 652.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
