Asserting and defending a foreign-money claim. (a) A person may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreign-money claim is not asserted, the claimant makes the claim in United States dollars. (b) An opposing party may allege and prove that a claim, in whole or in part, is in a different money than that asserted by the claimant. (c) A person may assert a defense, set-off, recoupment, or counterclaim in any money without regard to the money of other claims. (d) The determination of the proper money of the claim is a question of law. (Feb. 10, 1996, D.C. Law 11-85, § 2, 42 DCR 6791.) Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 15-905. Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 6 of the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act.
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