While farm products are located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of an agricultural lien on the farm products.
S.C. Code Ann. § 36-9-302
Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 36–36 (519 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Brockbank v. Best Capital Corp. (2000)
Most recently applied in Brockbank v. Best Capital Corp. (June 2000)
1962 Code SECTION 10.9-302; 1966 (54) 2716; 1967 (55) 862; 1968 (55) 3037; 1988 Act No. 494, SECTION 5; 1991 Act No. 161, SECTION 2(G); 2001 Act No. 67, SECTION 12.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Carolina Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.