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TITLE 31. CREDIT TRANSACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
CHAPTER 2. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR RELATIONSHIPS

Part 1. General Provisions -- Definitions
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31-2-101. Debtor defined.
31-2-102. Creditor defined.
31-2-103. Contracts of debtor are valid.
31-2-104. Payments in preference.
31-2-105. Relative rights of different creditors.
31-2-106. Exempt property -- bankruptcy proceeding.
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31-2-101. Debtor defined. A debtor is one who, by reason of an existing obligation, is or may become liable to pay money to another, whether such liability is certain or contingent.

History: En. Sec. 4480, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6122, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8598, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3429; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1913; re-en. Sec. 8598, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-101.
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31-2-102. Creditor defined. A creditor is one in whose favor an obligation exists, by reason of which he is or may become entitled to the payment of money.

History: En. Sec. 4481, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6123, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8599, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3430; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1914; re-en. Sec. 8599, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-102.
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31-2-103. Contracts of debtor are valid. In the absence of fraud, every contract of a debtor is valid against all his creditors, existing or subsequent, who have not acquired a lien on the property affected by such contract.

History: En. Sec. 4482, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6124, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8600, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3431; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1915; re-en. Sec. 8600, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-103.
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31-2-104. Payments in preference. A debtor may pay one creditor in preference to another or may give to one creditor security for the payment of his demand in preference to another.

History: En. Sec. 4483, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6125, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8601, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3432; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1916; re-en. Sec. 8601, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-104.
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31-2-105. Relative rights of different creditors. Where a creditor is entitled to resort to each of several funds for the satisfaction of his claim and another person has an interest in or is entitled as a creditor to resort to some but not all of them, the latter may require the former to seek satisfaction from those funds to which the latter has no such claim, so far as it can be done without impairing the right of the former to complete satisfaction and without doing injustice to third persons.

History: En. Sec. 4484, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6126, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8602, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3433; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1917; re-en. Sec. 8602, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-105.
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31-2-106. Exempt property -- bankruptcy proceeding. An individual may not exempt from the property of the estate in any bankruptcy proceeding the property specified in 11 U.S.C. 522(d). An individual may exempt from the property of the estate in any bankruptcy proceeding:
(1) that property exempt from execution of judgment as provided in 19-2-1004, 19-18-612, 19-19-504, 19-20-706, 19-21-212, Title 25, chapter 13, part 6, 33-7-522, 33-15-512 through 33-15-514, 39-51-3105, 39-71-743, 39-73-110, 53-2-607, 53-9-129, Title 70, chapter 32, and 80-2-245;
(2) the individual's right to receive unemployment compensation and unemployment benefits; and
(3) the individual's right to receive benefits from or interest in a private or governmental retirement, pension, stock bonus, profit-sharing, annuity, or similar plan or contract on account of illness, disability, death, age, or length of service, excluding that portion of contributions made by the individual within 1 year before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy that exceeds 15% of the individual's gross income for that 1-year period, unless:
(a) the plan or contract was established by or under the auspices of an insider that employed the individual at the time the individual's rights under the plan or contract arose;
(b) the benefit is paid on account of age or length of service; and
(c) the plan or contract does not qualify under section 401(a), 403(a), 403(b), 408, or 409 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 401(a), 403(b), 408, or 409.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 161, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 208, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 45, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 301, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 39, Ch. 586, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 59, Ch. 238, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 234, Ch. 265, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 71, Ch. 114, L. 2003.
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