Winter Intersession or Spring 2012 Initial Class Assignment for:

Secured Transactions § (a)

Instructor: David East

First class date: Thursday, January 12, 2012

Posting date: Jan 6, 2012 @ 14:54:13

Instructions:

Text:	Commercial Transactions: Secured Financing; Cases, 
Materials, Problems, 3d ed., by Raymond Nimmer, Ingrid Hillinger and 
Michael Hillinger (Lexis Publishing 2003)
	
UCC:	Anderson, Bartlett & East's Texas Uniform Commercial Code
Annotated, Thomson West, 2011-2012 ed.  

Text Assignment:  Preface, p. v; Introduction to the Code, Overview 
of Secured Financing, pp. 1-21, including problems 1.1 and 1.2 to the
extent time permits. Read through the Loan and Security Agreement in 
Appendix I, pp. 547-566, noting the structure of the document and 
the types of provisions included.  

UCC Assignment:  Sections 1.102, 1.103, 1.107, 1.201 (especially
1.201(b)(35)), 1.203, 1.301, 1.302, 1.304, 9.101, 9.102.  Examine 
these Code sections, especially the definitions, and (for now) skim 
through the Uniform Commercial Code Comments, any State Bar 
Committee Comments, the Commentary, and any Leading Cases.