2684. Only a person, partnership or trustee carrying on an enterprise may grant a hypothec on a universality of property, movable or immovable, present or future, corporeal or incorporeal.
The person or the trustee may thus hypothecate animals, tools or equipment pertaining to the enterprise, claims and accounts receivable, patents and trademarks, or corporeal movables included in the assets of any of his enterprises kept for sale, lease or processing in the manufacture or transformation of property intended for sale, for lease or for use in providing a service.
1991, c. 64, a. 2684; I.N. 2014-05-01; 2015, c. 8, s. 354.