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⚖️ Not legally valid 🛠️ Not finished
unperfected

unperfected

9.6
Not having finished the legal steps to make a lender's claim valid
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈpɜrˌfɛktɪd/
  • Formal
translation icon : no perfeccionado
  • Without the proper filings, his lien against the asset remains unperfected and cannot be enforced.

Examples

  • The seller's claim on the property is still unperfected because the loan documentation is incomplete.

  • The bank informed her that the mortgage agreement was unperfected until all required signatures were obtained.

  • Merton suggested that such consequences might be the result of yet unperfected methodological approaches which, when perfected, would show such consequences to be capable of rational explanation.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

unexecuted
vsunperfected
  • Formal
6.5

Not carried out or finished, for example a contract not signed

refers to not finishing the formal steps that make a security interest enforceable
unvested
vsunperfected
  • Specialized
8.1

Not having the legal right yet to money, shares or benefits

focuses on failing formal perfection steps to make a security interest enforceable

Antonyms

completed
1.0

Finished and not needing any more work

How Enforceable

perfected
4.4
enforceable
  • Specialized
14 6.6
unperfected
  • Formal
9.6
unenforceable
  • Formal
7 7.7

Surface Forms

unperfected positive

Morphology

unperfected = perfected (semi-transparent) = un + perfect + ed

Formed by transparent negation 'un-' + 'perfected', but the legal sense of 'perfected' (to make a security interest legally enforceable) is specialized and may be unfamiliar to average learners.

Etymology

Unperfected is formed from un- ('not') and perfect ('made complete' or 'fully ready'). In law, to 'perfect' a security interest means to finish the official steps so it works legally, so unperfected means those steps were not done and the right may not be protected.