fixture filing
fixture filing. The act or an instance of recording, in public real-estate records, a security interest in personal property that is intended to become a fixture. See UCC § 9-102(a)(40). • The creditor files a financing statement in the real-property records of the county where a mortgage on the real estate would be filed. A fixture-filing financing statement must contain a description of the real estate. [Cases: Secured Transactions 85, 94. C.J.S. Secured Transactions §§ 54, 68–70.]
