Section 12-307 - Foreign judgments

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.

CREDIT(S)

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

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 12-307.
1973 Ed., § 12-307.

Current through September 13, 2012