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The Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act: A Survey Of The Case Law, Carol C. Honigberg
The Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act: A Survey Of The Case Law, Carol C. Honigberg
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act's genesis lay in the belief that a state's codification of its rules on the recognition of foreign money-judgments would increase the likelihood that similar judgments rendered by that state would be recognized abroad. The treatment of United States judgments in the courts of foreign nations concerned the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws because United States courts traditionally accord far better treatment to foreign judgments than is accorded United States judgments abroad. The recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, or recognition practice, has long posed special problems because of the vast differences in the various …