Security Interests, Repossessed Collateral, and Turnover of Property to the Bankruptcy Estate 2002 Utah Law Review 2002

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2002 Utah L. Rev. 775 (2002)
Security Interests, Repossessed Collateral, and Turnover of Property to the Bankruptcy Estate

handle is hein.journals/utahlr2002 and id is 787 raw text is: Security Interests, Repossessed Collateral, and Turnover of
Property to the Bankruptcy Estate
Stephen J. Ware*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Colloquial and Specialist's Understandings of Property in
Article 9 and the Bankruptcy Code ......................... 777
A . G enerally ............................................. 777
B. Sections 541 and 542(a) ................................. 778
II. Whiting Pools and Article 9 Cases Using the Colloquial
Understanding of Property ............................... 780
III. The Specialist's Understanding of Property Appears in the Case Law:
L ew is .. .. ........................................... 784
A. Lewis's Federal Law Holding ............................. 784
B. Lewis's State Law Holding ............................... 787
IV. State Law Differences and Their Irrelevance .................... 789
A . Introduction ........................................... 789
B . G reene ............................................... 790
C. Other Courts Bound by Lewis ........................... 794
D. Courts not Bound by Lewis ............................... 799
V . C onclusion .............................................. 802
'Professor of Law, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. J.D., University of
Chicago; B.A., University of Pennsylvania. Thanks to Ted Janger, Tom Plank, Tom Bennett, Chris
Drahozal, Keith Meyer, Robert Chapman, Mike Floyd, Heather Glenn, Leigh Bullard, Burns Logan,
Leigh Weaver, and Brad Burnham.
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