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Wis. Stats: 409 Uniform Commercial Code – Secured Transactions, as regards priority of a construction mortgage and fixtures.

409.334 Priority of security interests in fixtures and crops. 
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(8) Priority of Construction Mortgage. 
A mortgage is a construction mortgage to the extent that it secures an obligation incurred for the construction of an improvement on land, including the acquisition cost of the land, if a recorded record of the mortgage so indicates. Except as otherwise provided in subs. (5) and (6), a security interest in fixtures is subordinate to a construction mortgage if a record of the mortgage is recorded before the goods become fixtures and the goods become fixtures before the completion of the construction. A mortgage has this priority to the same extent as a construction mortgage to the extent that it is given to refinance a construction mortgage.
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