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

Terms Used In Utah Code 78B-5-403

  • Action: means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a money payment may be awarded or enforced in respect of a foreign-money claim. See Utah Code 78B-5-402
  • Distribution proceeding: means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, for the liquidation or rehabilitation of a corporation or other entity, for the distribution of an estate, trust, or other fund in or against which a foreign-money claim is asserted. See Utah Code 78B-5-402
  • 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 Utah Code 78B-5-402
  • State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the United States Virgin Islands. See Utah Code 78B-5-402
(2)  This part applies to foreign-money issues notwithstanding the law applicable under the conflict of laws rules of this state to other issues in the action or distribution proceeding.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session