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2011 Utah Code
Title 78B Judicial Code
Chapter 5 Procedure and Evidence
- Section 101 Right to jury trial.
- Section 102 Jury to decide questions of fact.
- Section 103 Court to decide questions of law.
- Section 201 Definitions -- Judgment recorded in Registry of Judgments.
- Section 202 Duration of judgment -- Judgment as a lien upon real property -- Abstract of judgment -- Small claims judgment not a lien -- Appeal of judgment -- Child support orders.
- Section 203 Judgment against party dying after verdict or decision.
- Section 204 Judgment against sheriff -- When conclusive against sureties on indemnity bond.
- Section 205 Judgment by confession authorized.
- Section 206 Mileage allowance for judgment debtor required to appear.
- Section 301 Title.
- Section 302 Definition -- Filing and status of foreign judgments.
- Section 303 Notice of filing.
- Section 304 Stay.
- Section 305 Lien.
- Section 306 Optional procedure.
- Section 307 Uniformity of interpretation.
- Section 320 Grounds for nonrecognition of libel judgments.
- Section 321 Foreign libel judgment.
- Section 322 Application.
- Section 401 Title.
- Section 402 Definitions.
- Section 403 Scope.
- Section 404 Variation by agreement.
- Section 405 Determining the money of the claim.
- Section 406 Determining the amount of the money of certain contract claims.
- Section 407 Asserting and defending a foreign-money claim.
- Section 408 Judgments and awards on foreign-money claims -- Time of money conversion -- Form of judgment.
- Section 409 Conversions of foreign money in a distribution proceeding.
- Section 410 Prejudgment and judgment interest.
- Section 411 Enforcement of foreign judgments.
- Section 412 Temporarily determining the United States dollar value of foreign-money claims for limited purposes.
- Section 413 Effect of currency revalorizations.
- Section 414 Supplementary general principles of law.
- Section 415 Uniformity of application and construction.
- Section 416 Application.
- Section 501 Title.
- Section 502 Definitions.
- Section 503 Homestead exemption -- Definitions -- Excepted obligations -- Water rights and interests -- Conveyance -- Sale and disposition -- Property right for federal tax purposes.
- Section 504 Declaration of homestead -- Filing -- Contents -- Failure to file -- Conveyance by married person -- No execution sale if bid less than exemption -- Redemption rights of judgment creditor.
- Section 505 Property exempt from execution.
- Section 506 Value of exempt property -- Exemption of implements, professional books, tools, and motor vehicle.
- Section 507 Exemption of proceeds from property sold, taken by condemnation, lost, damaged, or destroyed -- Tracing exempt property and proceeds.
- Section 508 Allowable claims against exempt property.
- Section 509 Waiver of exemptions in favor of unsecured creditor unenforceable.
- Section 510 Assertion of individual's rights by spouse, dependent, or other authorized person.
- Section 511 Injunctive relief, damages, or both allowed against creditor to prevent violation of chapter -- Costs and attorney fees.
- Section 512 Property held by joint tenants or tenants in common.
- Section 513 Exemption provisions applicable in bankruptcy proceedings.
- Section 601 Statutes as evidence.
- Section 602 Entries in official records as evidence.
- Section 603 Entries in course of official duty as evidence.
- Section 604 Certificate of location or purchase of public lands of United States as evidence.
- Section 605 Histories, scientific books, maps, and charts as evidence.
- Section 606 Certificate of acknowledgment as evidence of execution.
- Section 607 When entries and writings of a decedent are prima facie evidence.
- Section 608 Writings -- How proved.
- Section 609 Proof of execution when subscribing witness denies or forgets.
- Section 610 When unnecessary.
- Section 611 Proof of wills.
- Section 612 Proof of instruments affecting real estate.
- Section 613 Proof of publication of document, notice, or order.
- Section 614 Filing of affidavit -- Original or certified copy as evidence.
- Section 615 Parol evidence of contents of writings -- When admissible.
- Section 616 Business record -- Admissibility -- Weight.
- Section 617 Writings bearing obvious alterations -- Explanation required.
- Section 618 Patient access to medical records -- Third party access to medical records.
- Section 619 Access to medical records of deceased patient.
- Section 620 Calibration certificates for breathalizers.
- Section 701 Taking of affidavits in this state.
- Section 702 Taking of affidavits in another state.
- Section 703 Taking of affidavits in foreign country.
- Section 704 Certification of affidavits taken before foreign court or judge.
- Section 705 Unsworn declaration in lieu of affidavit.
- Section 801 Public and private statutes defined.
- Section 802 Tender -- Offer in writing sufficient -- Objection -- Must be specific or waived.
- Section 803 Receipt may be demanded as condition to payment or deposit.
- Section 804 Money deposited in court.
- Section 805 State, state officers, and political subdivisions not required to give bond.
- Section 806 Payment of costs by state.
- Section 807 Payment of costs by county.
- Section 808 Salaries of public officers subject to garnishment.
- Section 809 Service of process.
- Section 810 Sureties on stay bonds entitled to subrogation.
- Section 811 Provisions as to depositions made applicable to nonjudicial proceedings.
- Section 812 Release or settlement of personal injury claim -- When voidable.
- Section 813 Statement of injured person -- When inadmissible as evidence.
- Section 814 Release, settlement, or statement by injured person -- When rescission or disavowal provisions inapplicable.
- Section 815 Release, settlement, or statement by injured person -- Notice of rescission or disavowal.
- Section 816 Right of rescission or disavowal of release, settlement, or statement by injured person in addition to other provisions.
- Section 817 Definitions.
- Section 818 Comparative negligence.
- Section 819 Separate special verdicts on total damages and proportion of fault.
- Section 820 Amount of liability limited to proportion of fault -- No contribution.
- Section 821 Joinder of defendants.
- Section 822 Release to one defendant does not discharge other defendants.
- Section 823 Effect on immunity, exclusive remedy, indemnity, and contribution.
- Section 824 Personal injury judgments -- Interest authorized.
- Section 825 Attorney fees -- Award where action or defense in bad faith -- Exceptions.
- Section 825.5 Attorney fees -- Private attorney general doctrine disavowed.
- Section 826 Attorney fees -- Reciprocal rights to recover attorney fees.
- Section 827 Attorney fees awarded to state funded agency in action against state or subdivision -- Forfeit of appropriated money.
- Section 828 Bond required in an environmental action.
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