§ 9-32.1-7 - Asserting and defending a foreign money claim. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 9-32.1-7

   § 9-32.1-7  Asserting and defending aforeign money claim. – (a) A person may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreignmoney claim is not asserted, the claimant makes the claim in United Statesdollars.

   (b) An opposing party may allege and prove that a claim, inwhole or in part, is in different money than that asserted by the claimant.

   (c) A person may assert a defense, set-off, recoupment, orcounterclaim in any money without regard to the money of other claims.

   (d) The determination of the proper money of the claim is aquestion of law.