Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

548.08 JUDGMENT ROLL, HOW MADE UP. Upon entering the judgment, the court administrator shall forthwith attach together and file the following papers, which shall constitute the judgment roll: (1) if the complaint be not answered, the summons and proof of its service, the complain…

548.09 LIEN OF JUDGMENT. § Subdivision 1.Entry and docketing; survival of judgment. Except as provided in section 548.091, every judgment requiring the payment of money shall be entered by the court administrator when ordered by the court and will be docketed by the court adminis…

548.091 SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE, OR COUNTY REIMBURSEMENT JUDGMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Entry and docketing of maintenance judgment. (a) A judgment for unpaid amounts under a judgment or decree of dissolution or legal separation that provides for installment or periodic payments of main…

548.10 NEW COUNTY; DOCKETING OLD JUDGMENTS; REAL ESTATE TAX JUDGMENTS. When a new county is created, the court administrator of the district court thereof shall transcribe into the court administrator's records all the docket entries relative to judgments for the payment of money…

548.101 ASSIGNED CONSUMER DEBT DEFAULT JUDGMENTS. (a) A party entitled to a judgment by default in a conciliation court or district court action upon an assigned obligation arising out of any consumer debt that is primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and in defau…

548.11 FEDERAL COURT JUDGMENT; DOCKETING. Every judgment requiring the payment of money rendered in a circuit or district court of the United States within this state shall be, from the docketing thereof in said court, a lien upon the real property of the judgment debtor situated…

548.12 LIEN DISCHARGED BY DEPOSIT OF MONEY, WHEN. Whenever an appeal shall be taken from a docketed judgment, or any motion shall be pending to set the same aside or for a new trial, the judgment debtor may deposit in court an amount sufficient to secure the payment of such judgm…

548.13 ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGMENT; MODE AND EFFECT. Every assignment of a judgment shall be in writing, signed and acknowledged by the assignor, except that written notice of assignment shall be sufficient in the case of assignment under section 518A.81. No assignment shall be valid …

548.14 JUDGMENTS, PROCURED BY FRAUD, SET ASIDE BY ACTION. Any judgment obtained in a court of record by means of perjury, subornation of perjury, or any fraudulent act, practice, or representation of the prevailing party, may be set aside in an action brought for that purpose by …

548.15 DISCHARGE OF RECORD. § Subdivision 1.General. Except as provided in subdivision 2, upon the satisfaction of a judgment, whether wholly or in part, or as to all or any of several defendants, the court administrator shall enter the satisfaction in the judgment roll, and note…

548.16 SATISFACTION AND ASSIGNMENT BY STATE. The commissioner of management and budget or the attorney general may execute satisfactions and assignments of judgments in behalf of the state. History: (9407) RL s 4279; 1929 c 186; 1973 c 492 s 14; 2009 c 101 art 2 s 109

548.17 PAYMENT AND SATISFACTION BY COURT ADMINISTRATOR. § Subdivision 1.Judgments other than for support and maintenance. Except as provided in subdivision 2, when a judgment debtor or other person whose property is subject to the lien of a money judgment files with the court adm…

548.181 DISCHARGE OF JUDGMENTS AGAINST BANKRUPTCY DEBTORS. § Subdivision 1.Application for discharge. A judgment debtor who has received a discharge under United States Code, title 11, or an interested party, upon paying a filing fee of $5 for each judgment, may apply to the cour…

548.19 JOINT DEBTORS; CONTRIBUTION AND SUBROGATION. When a judgment against two or more persons shall be enforced against or paid by one of them, or one of them shall pay more than a proper share as between that debtor and the other judgment debtors, the debtor may continue the j…

548.20 SEVERAL JUDGMENTS AGAINST JOINT DEBTORS. All parties to a joint obligation, including negotiable paper, copartnership debts, and all contracts upon which they are liable jointly, shall be severally liable also for the full amount thereof. They may be sued thereon jointly, …

548.21 DISCHARGE OF JOINT DEBTOR. A creditor who has a debt, demand, or judgment against a copartnership, or several joint obligors, promisors, or debtors, may discharge one or more of such copartners, obligors, promisors, or debtors, without impairing the creditor's right to rec…

548.22 CONFESSION OF JUDGMENT. A judgment for money due or to become due, or to secure any person against a contingent liability on behalf of the defendant, or for both, may be entered in the district court by confession and without action, upon filing with the court administrato…

548.23 PLEA OF CONFESSION. Judgment in the cases mentioned in section 548.22 may also be entered in the district court in the manner therein provided, and with like effect, upon filing with the court administrator a plea of confession signed by an attorney of such court, together…

548.24 SUBMISSION WITHOUT ACTION. Parties to a controversy which might be the subject of a civil action may, without action, agree upon a case containing the facts upon which the controversy depends, and present a submission of it to any court which would have jurisdiction if an …

548.25 VACATING REAL ESTATE JUDGMENT; WITHIN WHAT TIME. No judgment or decree quieting title to land or determining the title thereto or adverse claims therein heretofore entered or hereafter to be entered shall be adjudged invalid or set aside, unless the action or proceeding to…

548.251 COLLATERAL SOURCE CALCULATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "collateral sources" means payments related to the injury or disability in question made to the plaintiff, or on the plaintiff's behalf up to the date of the verdict, by or pursuant …

548.252 APPLICATION OF LAW; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. (a) A law of another state that authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a person or entity that does any of the following is contrary to the public policy of this state: (1) terminates a pregna…

548.26 DEFINITION. "Foreign judgment" means any judgment, decree, or order of a court of the United States or of any other court which is entitled to full faith and credit in this state. History: 1977 c 51 s 1

548.27 FILING AND STATUS OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS. A certified copy of any foreign judgment may be filed in the office of the court administrator of any district court of this state. The court administrator shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment of any dist…

548.28 NOTICE OF FILING. § Subdivision 1.Affidavit. At the time of the filing of the foreign judgment, the judgment creditor or the creditor's lawyer shall make and file with the court administrator an affidavit setting forth the name and last known post office address of the jud…

548.29 STAY. § Subdivision 1.Stay of enforcement; foreign judgment. If the judgment debtor shows the district court that an appeal from the foreign judgment is pending or will be taken, or that a stay of execution has been granted, the court shall, upon proof that the judgment de…

548.30 FEES. Any person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the court administrator the same fee as provided for filing a civil action in district court, except that if the amount of the judgment is not greater than the jurisdictional limit of the conciliation court, the fee s…

548.31 OPTIONAL PROCEDURE. The right of a judgment creditor to bring an action to enforce a judgment instead of proceeding under sections 548.26 to 548.30 remains unimpaired. History: 1977 c 51 s 6; 1986 c 444

548.32 UNIFORMITY OF APPLICATION AND CONSTRUCTION. Sections 548.26 to 548.33 shall be so applied and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of sections 548.26 to 548.33 among those states which enact it. History: 1977 c …

548.33 CITATION. Sections 548.26 to 548.33 may be cited as the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act. History: 1977 c 51 s 8

548.40 DEFINITIONS. For purposes of sections 548.40 to 548.53: (1) "Action" means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a payment in money may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim. (2) "Bank-offered spot rate" means the spot rate of exchange at whi…

548.41 SCOPE. (a) Sections 548.40 to 548.53 apply only to a foreign-money claim in an action or distribution proceeding. (b) Sections 548.40 to 548.53 apply to foreign-money issues even if other law under the conflict of laws rules of this state applies to other issues in the act…

548.42 VARIATION BY AGREEMENT. (a) The effect of sections 548.40 to 548.53 may be varied by agreement of the parties made before or after commencement of an action or distribution proceeding or the entry of judgment. (b) Parties to a transaction may agree upon the money to be use…

548.43 DETERMINING MONEY OF THE CLAIM. (a) The money in which the parties to a transaction have agreed that payment is to be made is the proper money of the claim for payment. (b) If the parties to a transaction have not otherwise agreed, the proper money of the claim, as in each…

548.44 DETERMINING AMOUNT OF THE MONEY OF CERTAIN CONTRACT CLAIMS. (a) If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is measured by a specified amount of a different money, the amount to be paid is determined on the conversion date. (b) If an amount contracted to be paid …

548.45 ASSERTING AND DEFENDING 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 …

548.46 JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS ON FOREIGN-MONEY CLAIMS; TIMES OF MONEY CONVERSION; FORM OF JUDGMENT. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c), a judgment or award on a foreign-money claim must be stated in an amount of the money of the claim. (b) A judgment or award on a foreign-mone…

548.47 CONVERSIONS OF FOREIGN MONEY IN DISTRIBUTION PROCEEDING. The rate of exchange prevailing at or near the close of business on the day the distribution proceeding is initiated governs all exchanges of foreign money in a distribution proceeding. A foreign-money claimant in a …

548.48 PREJUDGMENT AND JUDGMENT INTEREST. (a) With respect to a foreign-money claim, recovery of prejudgment or preaward interest and the rate of interest to be applied in the action or distribution proceeding, except as provided in subsection (b), are matters of the substantive …

548.49 ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN JUDGMENTS. (a) If an action is brought to enforce a judgment of another jurisdiction expressed in a foreign money and the judgment is recognized in this state as enforceable, the enforcing judgment must be entered as provided in section 548.46, wheth…

548.50 DETERMINING UNITED STATES DOLLAR VALUE OF FOREIGN-MONEY CLAIMS FOR LIMITED PURPOSES. (a) Computations under this section are for the limited purposes of the section and do not affect computation of the United States dollar equivalent of the money of the judgment for the pu…

548.51 EFFECT OF CURRENCY REVALORIZATION. (a) If, after an obligation is expressed or a loss is incurred in a foreign money, the country issuing or adopting that money substitutes a new money in place of that money, the obligation or the loss is treated as if expressed or incurre…

548.52 SUPPLEMENTARY GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW. Unless displaced by particular provisions of sections 548.40 to 548.53, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant, and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentat…

548.53 SHORT TITLE. Sections 548.40 to 548.53 may be cited as the Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act. History: 1991 c 156 s 14

548.54 SHORT TITLE. Sections 548.54 to 548.63 may be cited as the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act. History: 2010 c 263 s 1

548.55 DEFINITIONS. In sections 548.54 to 548.63: (1) "foreign country" means a government other than: (i) the United States; (ii) a state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States; or (iii) any other government with regard to which the decisi…