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Purchase money security interest

  1. A security interest taken by a secured party in assets acquired by a debtor where either the secured party sold the asset to the debtor on credit and retained a security interest in the asset sold as security to repay the loan or where the secured party made a loan to enable the debtor to acquire the asset and took a security interest in the asset as security for the enabling loan.