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2020 Revised Code of Washington
Title 6 - Enforcement of Judgments
Chapter 6.44 - Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act.
6.44.120 Effect of currency revalorization.
Universal Citation: WA Rev Code § 6.44.120 (2020)
RCW 6.44.120 Effect of currency revalorization.
(1) 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 money in place of that money, the obligation or the loss is treated as if expressed or incurred in the new money at the rate of conversion the issuing country establishes for the payment of like obligations or losses denominated in the former money.
(2) If substitution under subsection (1) of this section occurs after a judgment or award is entered on a foreign-money claim, the court or arbitrator shall amend the judgment or award by a like conversion of the former money.
[ 1991 c 153 ยง 12.]
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