TITLE 10

ISSUES, TRIAL AND JUDGMENT IN CIVIL ACTIONS

CHAPTER 15

UNIFORM FOREIGN-MONEY CLAIMS ACT

10-1506.  Asserting and defending foreign-money claim. (a) A person may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreign-money claim is not asserted, the claimant makes the claim in United States dollars.

(b)  An opposing party may allege and prove that a claim, in whole or in part, is in a different money than that asserted by the claimant.

(c)  A person may assert a defense, set-off, recoupment or counterclaim in any money without regard to the money of other claims.

(d)  The determination of the proper money of the claim is a question of law.

History:

[10-1506, added 2001, ch. 329, sec. 1, p. 1157.]