Title 9, Title 9 and Civil Procedure — Procedure Generally

A subpoena issued under § 9-18.1-3 shall be served in compliance with the Rhode Island superior court rules of civil procedure.

The Rhode Island superior court rules of civil procedure govern subpoenas issued under § 9-18.1-3.

An application to the court for a protective order or to enforce, quash, or modify a subpoena issued under § 9-18.1-3 shall comply with the rules or statutes of this state and be submitted to the superior court in the county in which discovery is to be conducted.

In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

This chapter applies to requests for discovery in cases pending on July 15, 2019.

A newspaper or periodical as described in this chapter must be issued at regular intervals and have a paid circulation.

Except as provided in § 9-19.1-3, no person shall be required by any court, grand jury, agency, department, or commission of the state to reveal confidential association, to disclose any confidential information, or to disclose the source of any confidential information received …

(a) The privilege conferred by § 9-19.1-2 shall not apply to any information which has at any time been published, broadcast, or otherwise made public by the person claiming the privilege. (b) The privilege conferred by § 9-19.1-2 shall not apply: (1) To the source of any alleged…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Uniform Foreign Money Claims Act.”

(a) With respect to a foreign money claim, recovery of pre-judgment or pre-award 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 law governing the right to recovery unde…

(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 § 9-32.1-8, whether or not the foreign judgment confers an opt…

(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 purpose of payment. (b) For the limited purpose of facilitating the enforcement of provisional…

(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 incurred in the new money at the rate of conversi…

Unless displaced by particular provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant, and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy, or other validati…

This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.

If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provision…

It is the intention of the general assembly that the official comments of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws pertaining to this chapter represent the express legislative intent of the general assembly and shall be used as a guide for interpretation of …

The following words and terms shall have the following respective meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (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) “B…

(a) This chapter applies only to a foreign money claim in an action or distribution proceeding. (b) This chapter applies to foreign money issues even if other law under the conflict of laws rules of this state applies to other issues in the action or distribution proceeding.

(a) The effect of this chapter 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 used in a transaction giving rise to a foreign …

(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 case may be appropriate, is the money:…

(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 in foreign money is to be measured by a different money at the rate…

(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 in part, is in different money than that asserted by…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (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 money claim is payable in that foreign money or, at the option of the debtor, in the amount of United…

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 distribution proceeding shall assert its claim in the named for…