27. Any joint stock legal person which does not carry on an enterprise, constituted as a legal person under an Act or by letters patent and empowered to borrow and to hypothecate or any legal person thus constituted outside Québec, if so empowered by its charter or by the law governing it, may avail itself of the provisions of the Civil Code and grant a hypothec, even a floating hypothec, on a universality of property, movable or immovable, present or future, corporeal or incorporeal.
R. S. 1964, c. 275, s. 22; 1968, c. 9, s. 90; 1992, c. 57, s. 643.