TITLE 10

ISSUES, TRIAL AND JUDGMENT IN CIVIL ACTIONS

CHAPTER 14

UNIFORM FOREIGN COUNTRY MONEY JUDGMENTS RECOGNITION ACT

10-1402.  Definitions. In this chapter:

(1)  "Foreign country" means a government other than:

(a)  The United States;

(b)  A state, district, commonwealth, territory or insular possession of the United States; or

(c)  Any other government with regard to which the decision in this state as to whether to recognize a judgment of that government’s courts is initially subject to determination under the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution.      

(2)  "Foreign country judgment" means a judgment of a court of a foreign country.

History:

[10-1402, added 2007, ch. 46, sec. 2, p. 115.]