Terms Used In Ohio Code 1309.628

• Collateral: means the property subject to a security interest or agricultural lien, including:

  (a) Proceeds to which a security interest attaches;

  (b) Accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, and promissory notes that have been sold; and

  (c) Goods that are the subject of a consignment. See Ohio Code 1309.102

• Communicate: means :

  (a) To send a written or other tangible record;

  (b) To transmit a record by any means agreed upon by the persons sending and receiving the record; or

  (c) In the case of transmission of a record to or by a filing office, to transmit a record by any means prescribed by filing-office rule. See Ohio Code 1309.102

• Consumer goods: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Ohio Code 1309.102
• Consumer transaction: means a transaction in which: (a) an individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, (b) a security interest secures the obligation, and (c) the collateral is held or acquired primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Ohio Code 1309.102
• Consumer-goods transaction: means a consumer transaction in which:

  (a) An individual incurs an obligation primarily for personal, family, or household purposes; and

  (b) A security interest in consumer goods secures the obligation. See Ohio Code 1309.102

• Debtor: means :

  (a) A person having an interest, other than a security interest or other lien, in the collateral, whether or not the person is an obligor;

  (b) A seller of accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes; or

  (c) A consignee. See Ohio Code 1309.102

• Financing statement: means a record composed of an initial financing statement and any filed record or records relating to the initial financing statement. See Ohio Code 1309.102
• Goods: 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. See Ohio Code 1309.102
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Obligor: means a person who, 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. See Ohio Code 1309.102
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Secured party: means :

  (a) A person in whose favor a security interest is created or provided for under a security agreement, whether or not any obligation to be secured is outstanding;

  (b) A person that holds an agricultural lien;

  (c) A consignor;

  (d) A person to whom accounts, chattel paper, payment intangibles, or promissory notes have been sold;

  (e) A trustee, indenture trustee, agent, collateral agent, or other representative in whose favor a security interest or agricultural lien is created or provided for; or

  (f) A person who holds a security interest arising under section 1302. See Ohio Code 1309.102