2013 District of Columbia Code
Division II — JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Title 12 — RIGHT TO REMEDY
Chapter 3 — LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
Section 12-307 — 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.
History
(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 511, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1.)
Annotations
Section References. This section is referenced in § 12-308.
Prior Codifications. 1981 Ed., § 12-307.
1973 Ed., § 12-307.
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