Judgments and awards on foreign-money claims - Times of money conversion - Form of judgment
N.D. Cent. Code § 32-41-07
in effect32-41-07. Judgments and awards on foreign-money claims - Times of money
conversion - Form of judgment.
1. Except as provided in subsection 3, a judgment or award on a foreign-money claim
must be stated in an amount of the money of the claim.
2. A judgment or award on a foreign-money claim is payable in that foreign money or, at
the option of the debtor, in the amount of United States dollars which will purchase that
foreign money on the conversion date at a bank-offered spot rate.
3. Assessed costs must be entered in United States dollars.
4. Each payment in United States dollars must be accepted and credited on a judgment
or award on a foreign-money claim in the amount of the foreign money that could be
purchased by the dollars at a bank-offered spot rate of exchange at or near the close
of business on the conversion date for that payment.
5. A judgment or award made in an action or distribution proceeding on both a defense,
setoff, recoupment, or counterclaim and the adverse party's claim, must be netted by
converting the money of the smaller into the money of the larger, and by subtracting
the smaller from the larger, and must specify the rates of exchange used.
6. A judgment substantially in the following form complies with subsection 1:
IT IS ADJUDGED AND ORDERED, that defendant (insert name) pay to
plaintiff (insert name) the sum of (insert amount in the foreign money) plus
interest on that sum at the rate of (insert rate) percent a year or, at the option of
the judgment debtor, the number of United States dollars which will purchase the
(insert name of foreign money) with interest due, at a bank-offered spot rate at or
near the close of business on the banking day next before the day of payment,
together with assessed costs of (insert amount) United States dollars.
7. If a contract claim is of the type covered by section 32-41-05, the judgment or award
must be entered for the amount of money stated to measure the obligation to be paid
in the money specified for payment or, at the option of the debtor, the number of
United States dollars which will purchase the computed amount of the money of
payment on the conversion date at a bank-offered spot rate.
8. A judgment must be docketed and indexed in foreign money in the same manner, and
has the same effect as a lien, as other judgments. A judgment may be discharged by
payment.
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