                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS (§ 8.9A-102)

a. Title 8.9A definitions. In this title:

   1. &#8220;Accession&#8221; means goods that are physically united with other
   goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost.

   2. &#8220;Account,&#8221; except as used in &#8220;account for,&#8221;
   &#8220;account statement,&#8221; &#8220;account to,&#8221; &#8220;commodity
   account&#8221; in paragraph (14), &#8220;customer&#8217;s account,&#8221;
   &#8220;deposit account&#8221; in paragraph (29), &#8220;on account of,&#8221;
   and &#8220;statement of account,&#8221; means a right to payment of a monetary
   obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (i) for property that has
   been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of,
   (ii) for services rendered or to be rendered, (iii) for a policy of insurance
   issued or to be issued, (iv) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be
   incurred, (v) for energy provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire
   of a vessel under a charter or other contract, (vii) arising out of the use of
   a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card,
   or (viii) health-care-insurance receivables. The term includes controllable
   accounts. The term does not include (i) chattel paper, (ii) commercial tort
   claims, (iii) deposit accounts, (iv) investment property, (v) letter-of-credit
   rights or letters of credit, (vi) rights to payment for money or funds
   advanced or sold, other than rights arising out of the use of a credit or
   charge card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (vii)
   rights to payment evidenced by an instrument.

   3. &#8220;Account debtor&#8221; means a person obligated on an account,
   chattel paper, or general intangible. The term does not include persons
   obligated to pay a negotiable instrument, even if the negotiable instrument
   evidences chattel paper.

   4. &#8220;Accounting,&#8221; except as used in &#8220;accounting for,&#8221;
   means a record:

A. signed by a secured party;

B. indicating the aggregate unpaid secured obligations as of a date not more
than 35 days earlier or 35 days later than the date of the record; and

C. identifying the components of the obligations in reasonable detail.

   5. &#8220;Agricultural lien&#8221; means an interest, other than a security
   interest, in farm products:

A. which secures payment or performance of an obligation for:

i. goods or services furnished in connection with a debtor&#8217;s farming
operation; or

   ii. rent on real property leased by a debtor in connection with its farming
   operation;

B. which is created by statute in favor of a person that:

i. in the ordinary course of its business furnished goods or services to a
debtor in connection with a debtor&#8217;s farming operation; or

   ii. leased real property to a debtor in connection with the debtor&#8217;s
   farming operation; and

C. whose effectiveness does not depend on the person&#8217;s possession of the
personal property.

   6. &#8220;As-extracted collateral&#8221; means:

A. oil, gas, or other minerals that are subject to a security interest that:

i. is created by a debtor having an interest in the minerals before extraction;
and

   ii. attaches to the minerals as extracted; or

B. accounts arising out of the sale at the wellhead or minehead of oil, gas, or
other minerals in which the debtor had an interest before extraction.

   7. [Reserved.]

      7A. &#8220;Assignee,&#8221; except as used in &#8220;assignee for benefit of
      creditors,&#8221; means a person (i) in whose favor a security interest that
      secures an obligation is created or provided for under a security agreement,
      whether or not the obligation is outstanding or (ii) to which an account,
      chattel paper, payment intangible, or promissory note has been sold. The
      term includes a person to which a security interest has been transferred by
      a secured party.

      7B. &#8220;Assignor&#8221; means a person that (i) under a security
      agreement creates or provides for a security interest that secures an
      obligation or (ii) sells an account, chattel paper, payment intangible, or
      promissory note. The term includes a secured party that has transferred a
      security interest to another person.

   8. &#8220;Bank&#8221; means an organization that is engaged in the business of
   banking. The term includes savings banks, savings and loan associations,
   credit unions, and trust companies.

   9. &#8220;Cash proceeds&#8221; means proceeds that are money, checks, deposit
   accounts, or the like.

   10. &#8220;Certificate of title&#8221; means a certificate of title with
   respect to which a statute provides for the security interest in question to
   be indicated on the certificate as a condition or result of the security
   interest&#8217;s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with
   respect to the collateral. The term includes another record maintained as an
   alternative to a certificate of title by the governmental unit that issues
   certificates of title if a statute permits the security interest in question
   to be indicated on the record as a condition or result of the security
   interest&#8217;s obtaining priority over the rights of a lien creditor with
   respect to the collateral.

   11. &#8220;Chattel paper&#8221; means:

A. a right to payment of a monetary obligation secured by specific goods, if the
right to payment and security agreement are evidenced by a record; or

B. a right to payment of a monetary obligation owed by a lessee under a lease
agreement with respect to specific goods and a monetary obligation owed by the
lessee in connection with the transaction giving rise to the lease, if:

i. the right to payment and lease agreement are evidenced by a record; and

   ii. the predominant purpose of the transaction giving rise to the lease was to
   give the lessee the right to possession and use of the goods.
   				The term does not include a right to payment arising out of a charter or
   other contract involving the use or hire of a vessel or a right to payment
   arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on
   or for use with the card.

   12. &#8220;Collateral&#8221; means the property subject to a security interest
   or agricultural lien. The term includes:

A. proceeds to which a security interest attaches;

B. accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, and promissory notes that have
been sold; and

C. goods that are the subject of a consignment.

   13. &#8220;Commercial tort claim&#8221; means a claim arising in tort with
   respect to which:

A. the claimant is an organization; or

B. the claimant is an individual and the claim:

i. arose in the course of the claimant&#8217;s business or profession; and

   ii. does not include damages arising out of personal injury to or the death of
   an individual.

   14. &#8220;Commodity account&#8221; means an account maintained by a commodity
   intermediary in which a commodity contract is carried for a commodity
   customer.

   15. &#8220;Commodity contract&#8221; means a commodity futures contract, an
   option on a commodity futures contract, a commodity option, or another
   contract if the contract or option is:

A. traded on or subject to the rules of a board of trade that has been
designated as a contract market for such a contract pursuant to federal
commodities laws; or

B. traded on a foreign commodity board of trade, exchange, or market, and is
carried on the books of a commodity intermediary for a commodity customer.

   16. &#8220;Commodity customer&#8221; means a person for which a commodity
   intermediary carries a commodity contract on its books.

   17. &#8220;Commodity intermediary&#8221; means a person that:

A. is registered as a futures commission merchant under federal commodities law;
or

B. in the ordinary course of its business provides clearance or settlement
services for a board of trade that has been designated as a contract market
pursuant to federal commodities law.

   18. &#8220;Communicate&#8221; means:

A. to send a written or other tangible record;

B. to transmit a record by any means agreed upon by the persons sending and
receiving the record; or

C. in the case of transmission of a record to or by a filing office, to transmit
a record by any means prescribed by filing-office rule.

   19. &#8220;Consignee&#8221; means a merchant to which goods are delivered in a
   consignment.

   20. &#8220;Consignment&#8221; means a transaction, regardless of its form, in
   which a person delivers goods to a merchant for the purpose of sale and:

A. the merchant:

i. deals in goods of that kind under a name other than the name of the person
making delivery;

   ii. is not an auctioneer; and

   iii. is not generally known by its creditors to be substantially engaged in
   selling the goods of others;

B. with respect to each delivery, the aggregate value of the goods is $1,000 or
more at the time of delivery;

C. the goods are not consumer goods immediately before delivery; and

D. the transaction does not create a security interest that secures an
obligation.

   21. &#8220;Consignor&#8221; means a person that delivers goods to a consignee
   in a consignment.

   22. &#8220;Consumer debtor&#8221; means a debtor in a consumer transaction.

   23. &#8220;Consumer goods&#8221; means goods that are used or bought for use
   primarily for personal, family, or household purposes.

   24. &#8220;Consumer-goods transaction&#8221; means a consumer transaction in
   which:

A. an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or
household purposes; and

B. a security interest in consumer goods secures the obligation.

   25. &#8220;Consumer obligor&#8221; means an obligor who is an individual and
   who incurred the obligation as part of a transaction entered into primarily
   for personal, family, or household purposes.

   26. &#8220;Consumer transaction&#8221; means a transaction in which (i) an
   individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household
   purposes, (ii) a security interest secures the obligation, and (iii) the
   collateral is held or acquired primarily for personal, family, or household
   purposes. The term includes consumer-goods transactions.

   27. &#8220;Continuation statement&#8221; means an amendment of a financing
   statement which:

A. identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it
relates; and

B. indicates that it is a continuation statement for, or that it is filed to
continue the effectiveness of, the identified financing statement.

   27A. &#8220;Controllable account&#8221; means an account evidenced by a
   controllable electronic record that provides that the account debtor
   undertakes to pay the person that has control under &#xA7; 8.12-105 of the
   controllable electronic record.

   27B. &#8220;Controllable payment intangible&#8221; means a payment intangible
   evidenced by a controllable electronic record that provides that the account
   debtor undertakes to pay the person that has control under &#xA7; 8.12-105 of
   the controllable electronic record.

   28. &#8220;Debtor&#8221; means:

A. a person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in
the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;

B. a seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory
notes; or

C. a consignee.

   29. &#8220;Deposit account&#8221; means a demand, time, savings, passbook, or
   similar account maintained with a bank. The term does not include investment
   property or accounts evidenced by an instrument.

   30. &#8220;Document&#8221; means a document of title or a receipt of the type
   described in subdivision (2) of &#xA7; 8.7-201.

   31. [Reserved.]

      31A. &#8220;Electronic money&#8221; means money in an electronic form.

   32. &#8220;Encumbrance&#8221; means a right, other than an ownership interest,
   in real property. The term includes mortgages and other liens on real
   property.

   33. &#8220;Equipment&#8221; means goods other than inventory, farm products,
   or consumer goods.

   34. &#8220;Farm products&#8221; means goods, other than standing timber, with
   respect to which the debtor is engaged in a farming operation and which are:

A. crops grown, growing, or to be grown, including:

i. crops produced on trees, vines, and bushes; and

   ii. aquatic goods produced in aquacultural operations;

B. livestock, born or unborn, including aquatic goods produced in aquacultural
operations;

C. supplies used or produced in a farming operation; or

D. products of crops or livestock in their unmanufactured states.

   35. &#8220;Farming operation&#8221; means raising, cultivating, propagating,
   fattening, grazing, or any other farming, livestock, or aquacultural
   operation.

   36. &#8220;File number&#8221; means the number assigned to an initial
   financing statement pursuant to subsection (a) of &#xA7; 8.9A-519.

   37. &#8220;Filing office&#8221; means an office designated in &#xA7; 8.9A-501
   as the place to file a financing statement.

   38. &#8220;Filing-office rule&#8221; means a rule adopted pursuant to &#xA7;
   8.9A-526.

   39. &#8220;Financing statement&#8221; means a record or records composed of an
   initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial
   financing statement.

   40. &#8220;Fixture filing&#8221; means the filing of a financing statement
   covering goods that are or are to become fixtures and satisfying subsections
   (a) and (b) of &#xA7; 8.9A-502. The term includes the filing of a financing
   statement covering goods of a transmitting utility which are or are to become
   fixtures.

   41. &#8220;Fixtures&#8221; means goods that have become so related to
   particular real property that an interest in them arises under real property
   law.

   42. &#8220;General intangible&#8221; means any personal property, including
   things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims,
   deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property,
   letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, and oil, gas, or other
   minerals before extraction. The term includes controllable electronic records,
   payment intangibles, and software.

   43. &#8220;Good faith&#8221; means honesty in fact and the observance of
   reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.

   44. &#8220;Goods&#8221; means all things that are movable when a security
   interest attaches. The term includes (i) fixtures, (ii) standing timber that
   is to be cut and removed under a conveyance or contract for sale, (iii) the
   unborn young of animals, (iv) crops grown, growing, or to be grown, even if
   the crops are produced on trees, vines, or bushes, and (v) manufactured homes.
   The term also includes a computer program embedded in goods and any supporting
   information provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program
   if (i) the program is associated with the goods in such a manner that it
   customarily is considered part of the goods or (ii) by becoming the owner of
   the goods, a person acquires a right to use the program in connection with the
   goods. The term does not include a computer program embedded in goods that
   consist solely of the medium in which the program is embedded. The term also
   does not include accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit
   accounts, documents, general intangibles, instruments, investment property,
   letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, or oil, gas, or other
   minerals before extraction.

   45. &#8220;Governmental unit&#8221; means a subdivision, agency, department,
   county, parish, municipality, or other unit of the government of the United
   States, a State, or a foreign country. The term includes an organization
   having a separate corporate existence if the organization is eligible to issue
   debt on which interest is exempt from income taxation under the laws of the
   United States.

   46. &#8220;Health-care-insurance receivable&#8221; means an interest in or
   claim under a policy of insurance which is a right to payment of a monetary
   obligation for health-care goods or services provided.

   47. &#8220;Instrument&#8221; means a negotiable instrument or any other
   writing that evidences a right to the payment of a monetary obligation, is not
   itself a security agreement or lease, and is of a type that in ordinary course
   of business is transferred by delivery with any necessary endorsement or
   assignment. The term does not include (i) investment property, (ii) letters of
   credit, (iii) writings that evidence a right to payment arising out of the use
   of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the
   card, or (iv) writings that evidence chattel paper.

   48. &#8220;Inventory&#8221; means goods, other than farm products, which:

A. are leased by a person as lessor;

B. are held by a person for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of
service;

C. are furnished by a person under a contract of service; or

D. consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials used or consumed in a
business.

   49. &#8220;Investment property&#8221; means a security, whether certificated
   or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account, commodity
   contract, or commodity account.

   50. &#8220;Jurisdiction of organization,&#8221; with respect to a registered
   organization, means the jurisdiction under whose law the organization is
   formed or organized.

   51. &#8220;Letter-of-credit right&#8221; means a right to payment or
   performance under a letter of credit, whether or not the beneficiary has
   demanded or is at the time entitled to demand payment or performance. The term
   does not include the right of a beneficiary to demand payment or performance
   under a letter of credit.

   52. &#8220;Lien creditor&#8221; means:

A. a creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment,
levy, or the like;

B. an assignee for benefit of creditors from the time of assignment;

C. a trustee in bankruptcy from the date of the filing of the petition; or

D. a receiver in equity from the time of appointment.

   53. &#8220;Manufactured home&#8221; means a structure, transportable in one or
   more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in
   width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or
   more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be
   used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to
   the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning,
   and electrical systems contained therein. The term includes any structure that
   meets all of the requirements of this paragraph except the size requirements
   and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification
   required by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and
   complies with the standards established under Title 42 of the United States
   Code.

   54. &#8220;Manufactured-home transaction&#8221; means a secured transaction:

A. that creates a purchase-money security interest in a manufactured home, other
than a manufactured home held as inventory; or

B. in which a manufactured home, other than a manufactured home held as
inventory, is the primary collateral.

   54A. &#8220;Money&#8221; has the meaning in &#xA7; 8.1A-102(b)(24), but does
   not include (i) a deposit account or (ii) money in an electronic form that
   cannot be subjected to control under &#xA7; 8.9A-105.1

   55. &#8220;Mortgage&#8221; means a consensual interest in real property,
   including fixtures, which secures payment or performance of an obligation.

   56. &#8220;New debtor&#8221; means a person that becomes bound as debtor under
   subsection (d) of &#xA7; 8.9A-203 by a security agreement previously entered
   into by another person.

   57. &#8220;New value&#8221; means (i) money, (ii) money&#8217;s worth in
   property, services, or new credit, or (iii) release by a transferee of an
   interest in property previously transferred to the transferee. The term does
   not include an obligation substituted for another obligation.

   58. &#8220;Noncash proceeds&#8221; means proceeds other than cash proceeds.

   59. &#8220;Obligor&#8221; means a person that, with respect to an obligation
   secured by a security interest in or an agricultural lien on the collateral,
   (i) owes payment or other performance of the obligation, (ii) has provided
   property other than the collateral to secure payment or other performance of
   the obligation, or (iii) is otherwise accountable in whole or in part for
   payment or other performance of the obligation. The term does not include
   issuers or nominated persons under a letter of credit.

   60. &#8220;Original debtor,&#8221; except as used in subsection (c) of &#xA7;
   8.9A-310, means a person that, as debtor, entered into a security agreement to
   which a new debtor has become bound under subsection (d) of &#xA7; 8.9A-203.

   61. &#8220;Payment intangible&#8221; means a general intangible under which
   the account debtor&#8217;s principal obligation is a monetary obligation. The
   term includes a controllable payment intangible.

   62. &#8220;Person related to,&#8221; with respect to an individual, means:

A. the spouse of the individual;

B. a brother, brother-in-law, sister, or sister-in-law of the individual;

C. an ancestor or lineal descendant of the individual or the individual&#8217;s
spouse; or

D. any other relative, by blood or marriage, of the individual or the
individual&#8217;s spouse who shares the same home with the individual.

   63. &#8220;Person related to,&#8221; with respect to an organization, means:

A. a person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common
control with the organization;

B. an officer or director of, or a person performing similar functions with
respect to, the organization;

C. an officer or director of, or a person performing similar functions with
respect to, a person described in subparagraph (A);

D. the spouse of an individual described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); or

E. an individual who is related by blood or marriage to an individual described
in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) and shares the same home with the
individual.

   64. &#8220;Proceeds,&#8221; except as used in subsection (b) of &#xA7;
   8.9A-609, means the following property:

A. whatever is acquired upon the sale, lease, license, exchange, or other
disposition of collateral;

B. whatever is collected on, or distributed on account of, collateral;

C. rights arising out of collateral;

D. to the extent of the value of collateral, claims arising out of the loss,
nonconformity, or interference with the use of, defects or infringement of
rights in, or damage to, the collateral; or

E. to the extent of the value of collateral and to the extent payable to the
debtor or the secured party, insurance payable by reason of the loss or
nonconformity of, defects or infringement of rights in, or damage to, the
collateral.

   65. &#8220;Promissory note&#8221; means an instrument that evidences a promise
   to pay a monetary obligation, does not evidence an order to pay, and does not
   contain an acknowledgment by a bank that the bank has received for deposit a
   sum of money or funds.

   66. &#8220;Proposal&#8221; means a record signed by a secured party which
   includes the terms on which the secured party is willing to accept collateral
   in full or partial satisfaction of the obligation it secures pursuant to
   &#xA7;&#xA7; 8.9A-620, 8.9A-621, and 8.9A-622.

   67. &#8220;Public-finance transaction&#8221; means a secured transaction in
   connection with which:

A. debt securities are issued;

B. all or a portion of the securities issued have an initial stated maturity of
at least 20 years; and

C. the debtor, obligor, secured party, account debtor or other person obligated
on collateral, assignor or assignee of a secured obligation, or assignor or
assignee of a security interest is a state or a governmental unit of a state.

   68. &#8220;Public organic record&#8221; means a record that is available to
   the public for inspection and that is:

A. a record consisting of the record initially filed with or issued by a state
or the United States to form or organize an organization and any record filed
with or issued by the state or the United States which amends or restates the
initial record;

B. an organic record of a business trust consisting of the record initially
filed with a state and any record filed with the state which amends or restates
the initial record, if a statute of the state governing business trusts requires
that the record be filed with the state; or

C. a record consisting of legislation enacted by the legislature of a state or
the Congress of the United States which forms or organizes an organization, any
record amending the legislation, and any record filed with or issued by the
state or the United States which amends or restates the name of the
organization.

   69. &#8220;Pursuant to commitment,&#8221; with respect to an advance made or
   other value given by a secured party, means pursuant to the secured
   party&#8217;s obligation, whether or not a subsequent event of default or
   other event not within the secured party&#8217;s control has relieved or may
   relieve the secured party from its obligation.

   70. &#8220;Record,&#8221; except as used in &#8220;for record,&#8221;
   &#8220;of record,&#8221; &#8220;record or legal title,&#8221; and
   &#8220;record owner,&#8221; means information that is inscribed on a tangible
   medium or which is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable
   in perceivable form.

   71. &#8220;Registered organization&#8221; means an organization formed or
   organized solely under the law of a single state or the United States by the
   filing of a public organic record with, the issuance of a public organic
   record by, or the enactment of legislation by the state or the United States.
   The term includes a business trust that is formed or organized under the law
   of a single state if a statute of the state governing business trusts requires
   that the business trust&#8217;s organic record be filed with the state.

   72. &#8220;Secondary obligor&#8221; means an obligor to the extent that:

A. the obligor&#8217;s obligation is secondary; or

B. the obligor has a right of recourse with respect to an obligation secured by
collateral against the debtor, another obligor, or property of either.

   73. &#8220;Secured party&#8221; means:

A. a person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under
a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is
outstanding;

B. a person that holds an agricultural lien;

C. a consignor;

D. a person to which accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory
notes have been sold;

E. a trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent, or other
representative in whose favor a security interest or agricultural lien is
created or provided for; or

F. a person that holds a security interest arising under § 8.2-401, 8.2-505,
8.2-711 (3), 8.2A-508 (5), 8.4-210, or 8.5A-118.

   74. &#8220;Security agreement&#8221; means an agreement that creates or
   provides for a security interest.

   75. [Reserved.]

   76. &#8220;Software&#8221; means a computer program and any supporting
   information provided in connection with a transaction relating to the program.
   The term does not include a computer program that is included in the
   definition of goods.

   77. &#8220;State&#8221; means a state of the United States, the District of
   Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or
   insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

   78. &#8220;Supporting obligation&#8221; means a letter of credit right or
   secondary obligation that supports the payment or performance of an account,
   chattel paper, a document, a general intangible, an instrument, or investment
   property.

   79. [Reserved.]

      79A. &#8220;Tangible money&#8221; means money in a tangible form.

   80. &#8220;Termination statement&#8221; means an amendment of a financing
   statement which:

A. identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which it
relates; and

B. indicates either that it is a termination statement or that the identified
financing statement is no longer effective.

   81. &#8220;Transmitting utility&#8221; means a person primarily engaged in the
   business of:

A. operating a railroad, subway, street railway, or trolley bus;

B. transmitting communications electrically, electromagnetically, or by light;

C. transmitting goods by pipeline or sewer; or

D. transmitting or producing and transmitting electricity, steam, gas, or water.

b. Definitions in other titles. The following definitions in other titles apply
to this title:
			&#8220;Applicant&#8221; &#xA7; 8.5A-102.
			&#8220;Beneficiary&#8221; &#xA7; 8.5A-102.
			&#8220;Broker&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Certificated security&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Check&#8221; &#xA7; 8.3A-104.
			&#8220;Clearing corporation&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Contract for sale&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2-106.
			&#8220;Control&#8221; &#xA7; 8.7-106.
			&#8220;Controllable electronic record&#8221; &#xA7; 8.12-102.
			&#8220;Customer&#8221; &#xA7; 8.4-104.
			&#8220;Entitlement holder&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Financial asset&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Holder in due course&#8221; &#xA7; 8.3A-302.
			&#8220;Issuer&#8221; (with respect to a letter of credit or letter-of-credit
right) &#xA7; 8.5A-102.
			&#8220;Issuer&#8221; (with respect to a security) &#xA7; 8.8A-201.
			&#8220;Issuer&#8221; (with respect to documents of title) &#xA7; 8.7-102.
			&#8220;Lease&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Lease agreement&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Lease contract&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Leasehold interest&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Lessee&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Lessee in ordinary course of business&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Lessor&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Lessor&#8217;s residual interest&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2A-103.
			&#8220;Letter of credit&#8221; &#xA7; 8.5A-102.
			&#8220;Merchant&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2-104.
			&#8220;Negotiable instrument&#8221; &#xA7; 8.3A-104.
			&#8220;Nominated person&#8221; &#xA7; 8.5A-102.
			&#8220;Note&#8221; &#xA7; 8.3A-104.
			&#8220;Proceeds of a letter of credit&#8221; &#xA7; 8.5A-114.
			&#8220;Protected purchaser&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-303.
			&#8220;Prove&#8221; &#xA7; 8.3A-103.
			&#8220;Qualifying purchaser&#8221; &#xA7; 8.12-102.
			&#8220;Sale&#8221; &#xA7; 8.2-106.
			&#8220;Securities account&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-501.
			&#8220;Securities intermediary&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Security&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Security certificate&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Security entitlement&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.
			&#8220;Uncertificated security&#8221; &#xA7; 8.8A-102.

c. Title 8.1A definitions and principles. Title 8.1A contains general
definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable
throughout this title.

HISTORY: 1964, c. 219, §§ 8.2-326, 8.9-105, 8.9-106, 8.9-109, 8.9-115,
8.9-301, 8.9-306; 1966, c. 394; 1973, c. 509; 1983, c. 204; 1984, c. 613; 1996,
cc. 77, 216; 1997, c. 343; 2000, c. 1007; 2003, c. 353; 2004, c. 200; 2012, c.
155; 2024, c. 652.