Foreign judgments

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Right to Remedy. [Enacted title]
4. Limitation of Actions
5. Foreign judgments

An action upon a judgment or decree rendered in a State, territory, commonwealth or possession of the United States or in a foreign country is barred if by the laws of that jurisdiction, the action would there be barred and the judgment or decree would be incapable of being otherwise enforced there.

(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 511, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 12-307.

1973 Ed., § 12-307.

Section References

This section is referenced in § 12-308.

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