§ 8801 Short title
§ 8802 Definitions
§ 8803 Applicability
§ 8804 Standards for recognition of foreign-country judgment
§ 8805 Personal jurisdiction
§ 8806 Procedure for recognition of foreign-country judgment
§ 8807 Effect of recognition of foreign-country judgment
§ 8808 Stay of proceeding pending appeal of foreign-country judgment
§ 8809 Statute of limitations
§ 8810 Uniformity of application and interpretation
§ 8811 Saving clause
§ 8812 Effective date
§ 8813 Recognition of judgments under prior law

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 14 > Part 7 > Chapter 759 - Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act

  • Academy: means the Maine Maritime Academy and its activities and functions supervised by its board of trustees or their designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Bargaining agent: means any lawful organization, association or individual representative of such organization or association which has as its primary purpose the representation of employees in their employment relations with employers, and which has been determined by the public employer as defined in subsection 5 or by the executive director of the board to be the choice of the majority of the unit as their representative. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 979-A
  • Bargaining agent: means any lawful organization, association or individual representative of such organization or association, which has as one of its primary purposes the representation of employees in their employment relations with employers and which has been certified by the Executive Director of the Maine Labor Relations Board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Barrier: means any wire, cable, cable wire, chain link, lumber, gate or other similar device placed or erected across a town way for the purpose of barring access to that way. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 3271
  • Board: means the Maine Labor Relations Board as defined in section 968, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 979-A
  • Board: means the Maine Labor Relations Board as defined in section 968, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Board of Trustees: means the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System, the Board of Trustees of the Maine Maritime Academy or the Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Classified employee: means any employee not engaged in professional work as defined in subsection 7. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Community college: means the Maine state community colleges and their activities and functions supervised by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System or its designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Cost items: means the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement which require specific funding. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Executive Director: means the Executive Director of the Maine Labor Relations Board as defined in section 968, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Legislative employee: means any employee of the Legislature performing services within the legislative branch, except any person:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 979-A
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Professional employee: means any employee engaged in work:
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Public employer: means , with respect to the executive branch, all the departments, agencies and commissions of the executive branch of the State of Maine, represented by the Governor or the Governor's designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 979-A
  • Regular employee: means any professional or classified employee who occupies a position that exists on a continual basis. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State employee: means an employee of the State of Maine performing services within the Executive Department except a person:
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 979-A
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Supervisory employee: means any employee whose principal work tasks are characterized by performing such management control duties as scheduling, assigning, overseeing and reviewing the work of subordinate employees, or performing such duties as are distinct and dissimilar from those performed by the employees supervised, or exercising judgment in adjusting grievances, in applying other established personnel policies and procedures and in enforcing a collective bargaining agreement or establishing or participating in the establishment of performance standards for subordinate employees and taking corrective measures to implement those standards. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Town way: means an area or strip of land designated and held by a municipality for passage by motor vehicles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 3271
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • University: means all campuses or units of the university, represented by the board of trustees or its designee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1022