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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>378398</law_id><section_number>8.9A-318</section_number><catch_line>No interest retained in right to payment that is sold; rights and title of seller of account or chattel paper with respect to creditors and purchasers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="30" identifier="8.9A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Secured Transactions</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="3">Perfection and Priority</unit><unit label="subpart" level="3" order_by="3" identifier="3">Priority</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Seller retains no interest. A debtor that has sold an account, chattel paper, payment intangible, or promissory note does not retain a legal or <span class="dictionary">equitable</span> interest in the <span class="dictionary">collateral</span> sold. <a id="paragraph-1412403" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-318/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Deemed rights of debtor if buyer&#x2019;s security interest unperfected. For purposes of determining the rights of <span class="dictionary">creditors</span> of, and purchasers for value of an account or chattel paper from, a debtor that has sold an account or chattel paper, while the buyer&#x2019;s security interest is unperfected, the debtor is deemed to have rights and title to the account or chattel paper identical to those the debtor sold. <a id="paragraph-1412404" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.9A-318/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, c. 1007.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
