Section 9--526. (39) "Financing statement" means a record or records composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record relating to the initial financing statement

(40) "Fixture filing" means the filing of a  financing  statement
              covering  goods  that  are  or  are  to  become fixtures and
              satisfying Section 9--502(a) and (b). The term includes  the
              filing   of  a  financing  statement  covering  goods  of  a
              transmitting utility which are or are to become fixtures.
         (41) "Fixtures" means  goods  that  have  become  so  related  to
              particular  real  property  that  an interest in them arises
              under real property law.
         (42) "General intangible" 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 payment intangibles and
              software.
         (43) "Good  faith"  means  honesty  in fact and the observance of
              reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.
         (44) "Goods" 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  consists  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) "Governmental unit" 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) "Health-care-insurance receivable" 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) "Instrument"  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  indorsement  or
              assignment.   The  term  does  not  include  (i)  investment
              property, (ii) letters of credit,  or  (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.
         (48) "Inventory" 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) "Investment property" means a security, whether certificated
              or uncertificated, security entitlement, securities account,
              commodity contract, or commodity account.
         (50) "Jurisdiction of organization", with respect to a registered
              organization,  means  the  jurisdiction  under whose law the
              organization is organized.
         (51) "Letter-of-credit  right"  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) "Lien creditor" 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) "Manufactured home" 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) "Manufactured-home transaction" 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.
         (55) "Mortgage" means a consensual  interest  in  real  property,
              including  fixtures, which secures payment or performance of
              an obligation.
         (56) "New debtor" means a person that  becomes  bound  as  debtor
              under  Section  9--203(d) by a security agreement previously
              entered into by another person.
         (57) "New value" means (i) money, (ii) money'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) "Noncash proceeds" means proceeds other than cash proceeds.
         (59) "Obligor" 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) "Original  debtor",  except  as  used  in Section 9--310(c),
              means a person that, as  debtor,  entered  into  a  security
              agreement  to  which  a  new  debtor  has become bound under