626B.1  Definitions.

As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:

1.  "Foreign judgment" means a judgment, decree, or order of a court of a foreign state granting or denying recovery of a sum of money, other than a judgment for taxes, a fine or other penalty, or a judgment for support of dependents.

2.  "Foreign state" means any governmental unit other than the United States, a state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession of the United States, the Panama Canal Zone, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or the Ryukyu Islands.

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  89 Acts, ch 173, §1


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