Goodman v. Schulman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““* * * The law recognizes that personal property taken as a mortgage security because of its transitory nature, can easily be lost, strayed, converted, or stolen. Realty cannot stray or be converted or stolen. Hence the law merchant recognizes the necessity of sanctioning summary methods of seizure to call in chattel mortgages. Were it otherwise, any system of credit extended ution chattels as security would be imperiled and perhaps break down. Cautious lenders would decline to lend on so insecure a collateral. Hence wo have the principle that immediately on default the chattels are the property of the mortgagee, to seize as the mortgage provisions direct, and no other or further notice is required except as the chattel mortgage itself covenants.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 69 Okla. Crim. 379 - Lepley v. State · Malone v. Darr