Title 7 — Civil Procedure
21 chapters · 163 sections in this title.
7 CMC § 2411 Single Publication: One Cause of Action
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2411. Single Publication: One Cause of Action. No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any single publication o…
7 CMC § 2412 Judgment as Bar to Other Actions
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2412. Judgment as Bar to Other Actions. A judgment in any jurisdiction or against the plaintiff upon the substantive merits of any action for damages founded upon a single publication or exhibition or utteranc…
7 CMC § 2421 Authority of Court to Render
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2421. Authority of Court to Render. In a case of actual controversy within its jurisdiction, the Commonwealth Trial Court, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal rel…
7 CMC § 2431 Conciliation Jurisdiction
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2431. Conciliation Jurisdiction. (a) The Commonwealth Trial Court may, at the request of a party to any civil controversy (other than annulment, divorce and adoption), endeavor to effect an amicable settlement…
7 CMC § 2441 Bounced Checks: Definitions
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2441. Bounced Checks: Definitions. As used in this article: (a) “Bank” includes depository. (b) “Check” includes any draft or order upon any bank or depository or upon or to any person for the payment of money…
7 CMC § 2442 Bounced Checks: Treble Damages and Attorney's Fees
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2442. Bounced Checks: Treble Damage and Attorney’s Fees. (a) Any person, who makes, utters, draws or delivers any check, payment of which is refused or dishonored due to lack of funds or credit to pay, or is r…
7 CMC § 2451 Definitions
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2451. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Defendant” means a person (including corporation, association, partnership and firm or governmental entity) aga…
7 CMC § 2452 Security
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2452. Security. In any litigation pending in any Commonwealth court, at any time until final judgment is entered, a defendant may move the court, upon notice and hearing, for an order requiring the plaintiff t…
7 CMC § 2453 Evidence
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2453. Evidence. At the hearing upon the motion the court shall consider any evidence, written or oral, by witnesses or affidavit, as may be material to the ground of the motion. Except for an order dismissing …
7 CMC § 2454 Determination; Dismissal
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2454. Determination; Dismissal. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if, after hearing the evidence upon the motion, the court determines that the plaintiff is a vexatious litigant and tha…
7 CMC § 2455 Security Not Furnished
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2455. Security Not Furnished. When security that has been ordered furnished is not furnished as ordered, the litigation shall be dismissed as to the defendant for whose benefit it was ordered furnished. Source…
7 CMC § 2456 Ten Days to Plead
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2456. Ten Days to Plead. Except as provided in 7 CMC § 2454(b), when a motion pursuant to 7 CMC § 2452 is filed prior to trial the litigation is stayed, and the moving defendant need not plead, until 10 days a…
7 CMC § 2457 Prefiling Order
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2457. Prefiling Order. (a) In addition to any other relief provided in this article, the court may, on its own motion or the motion of any party, enter a prefiling order which prohibits a vexatious litigant fr…
7 CMC § 2458 Vacate Prefiling Order
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2458. Vacate Prefiling Order. (a) A vexatious litigant subject to a prefiling order under 7 CMC § 2457 may file an application to vacate the prefiling order and remove his or her name from the clerk of court’s…
7 CMC § 2461 Order of Court for Release of Confidential Information: Procedure
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2461. Order of Court for Release of Confidential Information: Procedure An application to a court for an order requiring the Commission or its members or employees to release any information declared by law or…
7 CMC § 2462 Commonwealth Casino Commission May Refuse to Disclose Certain Information
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2462. Commonwealth Casino Commission May Refuse to Disclose Certain Information Commonwealth Casino Commission may refuse to disclose or reveal certain matters in court or administrative proceedings. The Commo…
7 CMC § 3401 Applicability of Common Law
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 3: TRIAL § 3401. Applicability of Common Law. In all proceedings, the rules of the common law, as expressed in the restatements of the law approved by the American Law Institute and, to the extent not so expressed as generally understood and appl…
7 CMC § 4401 Short Title
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4401. Short Title. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act of 1994. Source: PL 9-41 § 1. Commission Comment: PL 9-41 took effect June 5, 1995. The Revised Uniform Enfo…
7 CMC § 4402 Definition
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4402. Definition. In this chapter “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 the Commonwealt…
7 CMC § 4403 Filing and Status of Foreign Judgments
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4403. Filing and Status of Foreign Judgments. A copy of any foreign judgment authenticated in accordance with an act of Congress or the statutes or court rules of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana I…
7 CMC § 4404 Notice of Filing
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4404. Notice of Filing. (a) At the time of the filing of the foreign judgment, the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor’s lawyer shall make and file with the clerk of court an affidavit setting forth…
7 CMC § 4405 Fees
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4405. Fees. Any person filing a foreign judgment shall pay to the clerk of court a filing fee equal to that established by court rule for the filing of civil actions. Source: PL 9-41 § 5.
7 CMC § 4406 Stay
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4406. Stay. (a) If the judgment debtor shows the Superior 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 stay enfo…
7 CMC § 4407 Optional Procedure
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4407. Optional Procedure. The right of a judgment creditor to bring an action to enforce its judgment instead of proceeding under this chapter remains unimpaired. Source: PL 9-41 § 7.
7 CMC § 4408 Uniformity of Interpretation
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 4: JUDGMENTS; ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS § 4408. Uniformity of Interpretation. This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states and other jurisdictions which enact it. S…