California Code of Civil Procedure TITLE 8.5 - UNIFORM FOREIGN-MONEY CLAIMS ACT

• Section 676.
  This title shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act.(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 932, Sec. 1.)
• Section 676.1.
  As used in this title:(1) “Action” means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to...
• Section 676.2.
  (a) This title applies only to a foreign-money claim in an action or distribution proceeding.(b) This title applies to foreign-money issues even if other law under the...
• Section 676.3.
  (a) The effect of this title may be varied by agreement of the parties made before or after commencement of an action or distribution proceeding or...
• Section 676.4.
  (a) The money in which the parties to a transaction have agreed that payment is to be made is the proper money of the claim for...
• Section 676.5.
  (a) If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is measured by a specified amount of a different money, the amount to be...
• Section 676.6.
  (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...
• Section 676.7.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a judgment or award on a foreign-money claim shall be stated in an amount of the money of the...
• Section 676.8.
  The rate of exchange prevailing at or near the close of business on the day the distribution proceeding is initiated governs all exchanges of foreign...
• Section 676.9.
  (a) With respect to a foreign-money claim, recovery of prejudgment or pre-award interest and the rate of interest to be applied in the action or distribution...
• Section 676.10.a.
  (a) If an action is brought to enforce a judgment of another jurisdiction expressed in a foreign money and the judgment is recognized in this state...
• Section 676.11.
  (a) Computations under this section are for the limited purposes of the section and do not affect computation of the United States dollar equivalent of the...
• Section 676.12.
  (a) If, after an obligation is expressed or a loss is incurred in a foreign money, the country issuing or adopting that money substitutes a new...
• Section 676.13.
  Unless displaced by particular provisions of this title, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant, and the law relative to capacity to...
• Section 676.14.
  This title shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this title...
• Section 676.15.
  If any provision of this title or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity does not affect other provisions or...
• Section 676.16.
  This title applies to actions and distribution proceedings commenced on or after January 1, 1992.(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 932, Sec. 1.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018