Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 1C-1821

  • Action: means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim. See North Carolina General Statutes 1C-1820
  • Distribution proceeding: means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for the distribution of a fund in which one or more foreign-money claims is asserted and includes an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, the liquidation or rehabilitation of a corporation or other entity, and the distribution of an estate, trust, or other fund. See North Carolina General Statutes 1C-1820
  • Foreign-money claim: means a claim upon an obligation to pay, or a claim for recovery of a loss, expressed in or measured by a foreign money. See North Carolina General Statutes 1C-1820
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See North Carolina General Statutes 1C-1820

(a) This Article applies only to a foreign-money claim in an action or distribution proceeding.

(b) This Article applies to foreign-money issues even if other law under the conflict of laws rules of this State applies to other issues in the action or distribution proceeding. (1995, c. 213, s. 1.)