26-3-205: Effect of judgments of other foreign tribunals.
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 26. EVIDENCE
- CHAPTER 3. EFFECT OF FORMER JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS
- Part 2. Effect of Specific Kinds of Judicial Records
The effect of the judgment of any other tribunal of a foreign country having jurisdiction to pronounce the judgment is as follows:
(1) In case of a judgment against a specific thing, the judgment is conclusive upon the title to the thing.
(2) In case of a judgment against a person, the judgment is presumptive evidence of a right as between the parties and their successors in interest by a subsequent title and can only be repelled by evidence of a want of jurisdiction, want of notice to the party, collusion, fraud, or clear mistake of law or fact.
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