Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51 – Definitions
As used in this chapter:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51
- Action: means a judicial or arbitration proceeding in which an order or award for a money payment may be tendered or enforced. See Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Foreign money: means money other than money of the United States of America. See Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51
- 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 Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51
- Money: means a medium of exchange for the payment of debts or other obligations, or a store of value authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government or by intergovernmental agreement. See Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51
- 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.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Party: means an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, partnership or association of two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity asserting or defending against a foreign-money claim. See Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51
- Rate of exchange: means the rate at which the money of one country may be converted into another money in a free financial market convenient to or usable by the party to pay or to state a conversion. See Connecticut General Statutes 50a-51
- 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.
(1) “Action” means a judicial or arbitration proceeding in which an order or award for a money payment may be tendered or enforced;
(2) “Conversion date” means, except as provided in § 50a-58, the banking day next before the date on which money or an award is, in accordance with this chapter; (i) paid to a judgment creditor, (ii) paid to the designated official enforcing a judgment on behalf of the judgment creditor or (iii) used to effect a set-off of claims in different moneys in an action;
(3) “Distribution proceeding” means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, or for the distribution, liquidation, or rehabilitation of a corporation, other entity, an estate, trust, or other fund in or against which the share of a foreign-money claim is asserted;
(4) “Foreign money” means money other than money of the United States of America;
(5) “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;
(6) “Money” means a medium of exchange for the payment of debts or other obligations, or a store of value authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government or by intergovernmental agreement;
(7) “Money of the claim” means the money determined as proper by § 50a-54;
(8) “Party” means an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, partnership or association of two or more persons having a joint or common interest or any other legal or commercial entity asserting or defending against a foreign-money claim;
(9) “Rate of exchange” means the rate at which the money of one country may be converted into another money in a free financial market convenient to or usable by the party to pay or to state a conversion. If separate exchange rates apply to different transactions or events, the term means the rate applicable to the particular transaction or event giving rise to the foreign-money claim;
(10) “Spot rate” means the rate of exchange at which foreign money is sold by a bank or foreign-currency trader, for settlement by immediate payment, by charge to an account, or by an agreed delayed settlement not exceeding two days. “Bank-offered spot rate” means the rate at which a bank will issue its draft in the foreign currency or will cause credit to become available on a next-day basis in the foreign money.