Asserting and defending a foreign-money claim

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Judgments and Executions; Fees and Costs. [Enacted title]
4. Uniform Foreign-Money Claims
5. Asserting and defending a 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.

(Feb. 10, 1996, D.C. Law 11-85, § 2, 42 DCR 6791.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 15-905.

Editor's Notes

Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 6 of the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act.

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