§ 680.210.General Intangibles

Some of a judgment debtor's most valuable assets are not physical at all and do not fit the more specific categories already defined -- a royalty stream, a pending tax refund, licensing income, a right to payment under a settlement. This section catches those in a catch-all category, borrowed from the Commercial Code, but narrowed here to rights to payment specifically.

That narrowing matters. The Commercial Code's own definition of general intangibles is broader than payment rights alone, but the Enforcement of Judgments Law trims it down for its own purposes, keeping the category focused on the kind of intangible asset a levying officer can realistically direct a levy toward: money someone else owes the debtor.