Chapter 806 — CIVIL PROCEDURE — JUDGMENT

806.01 Judgment. (1) (a) A judgment is the determination of the action. It may be final or interlocutory. (b) Each judgment shall specify the relief granted or other determination of the action, and the name and place of residence of each party to the action. (c) Every final judg…

806.02 Default judgment. (1) A default judgment may be rendered in favor of any party as provided in subs. (1) to (4) if no issue of law or fact has been joined on any claim asserted in a complaint, counterclaim, or cross claim and if the time for joining issue has expired. Any d…

806.025 Payment of judgment in cases involving prisoners. (1) In this section, “prisoner” has the meaning given in s. 801.02 (7) (a) 2. (2) If a court enters a judgment for a monetary award on behalf of a prisoner, the court shall do all of the following: (a) Order that the award…

806.03 Judgment on admitted claim; order to satisfy. In an action on an express contract for the recovery of a liquidated sum of money only, if the answer admits any part of the plaintiff’s claim or if the answer sets up a counterclaim for an amount less than the plaintiff’s clai…

806.04 Uniform declaratory judgments act. (1) SCOPE. Courts of record within their respective jurisdictions shall have power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. No action or proceeding shall be open to objecti…

806.05 Declaratory judgments against obscene matter. (1) GROUNDS FOR AND COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION. Whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that any book, magazine, or other written matter, or picture, sound recording or film, which is being sold, loaned, or distributed in any…

806.06 Rendition, perfection and entry of judgment. (1) (a) A judgment is rendered by the court when it is signed by the judge or by the clerk at the judge’s written direction. (b) A judgment is entered when it is filed in the office of the clerk of court. (c) A judgment is perfe…

806.07 Relief from judgment or order. (1) On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court, subject to subs. (2) and (3), may relieve a party or legal representative from a judgment, order or stipulation for the following reasons: (a) Mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excus…

806.08 Stay of proceedings to enforce a judgment. (1) Unless otherwise ordered by the court, an interlocutory or final judgment in an action for an injunction or in a receivership action shall not be stayed during the period after its entry and until an appeal is taken or during …

806.09 Restitution in case of reversed judgment; purchaser for value. (1) If any judgment or part of a judgment is collected and such judgment is afterwards set aside or reversed, the trial court shall order the same to be restored with interest from the time of the collection, b…

806.10 Judgment and lien docket. (1) At the time of entry of a judgment directing in whole or in part the payment of money, or a judgment naming a spouse under s. 806.15 (4), and upon payment of the exact amount of the fee prescribed in s. 814.61 (5) (am) 2., the clerk of circuit…

806.11 Delinquent income or franchise tax lien. (1) At the time of filing the warrant provided by s. 71.74 (14), 71.91 (5), or 71.93 (8) (b) 5., the clerk of circuit court shall enter the warrant in the judgment and lien docket, including: (a) The name of each delinquent income o…

806.115 Filing of duplicate copy of warrant. The department of revenue may file in any county a duplicate copy of a warrant filed under s. 71.74 (14), 71.91 (5), or 71.93 (8) (b) 5. and the clerk of circuit court shall enter the duplicate copy on the judgment and lien docket as p…

806.12 Transcript of municipal judge’s judgment. (1) The clerk of circuit court shall, upon the production of a duly certified transcript of a judgment for more than $10, exclusive of costs, rendered by any municipal judge in the county, enter the judgment in the judgment and lie…

806.13 Judgments entered in other counties. When a judgment is entered as provided in ss. 806.10, 806.12 and 806.24, or a warrant is entered as provided in s. 108.22 (2) (a), it may be entered in any other county, upon filing with the clerk of circuit court of that county a trans…

806.15 Lien of judgment; priority; statute may be suspended. (1) Every judgment properly entered in the judgment and lien docket showing the judgment debtor’s place of residence shall, for 10 years from the date of entry, be a lien on all real property of every person against who…

806.16 Appellate court judgment, entry. The clerk of the supreme court, on demand and upon payment of $1, shall furnish a certified transcript of any money judgment of the court of appeals or the supreme court, which transcript may be filed and entered in the judgment and lien do…

806.17 Entering federal judgments. Every judgment and decree requiring the payment of money rendered in a district court of the United States within this state shall be a lien upon the real property of the judgment debtor situated in the county in which it is entered, the same as…

806.18 Assignment of judgment. (1) When a duly acknowledged assignment of a judgment is filed, the clerk of circuit court shall enter the assignment on the judgment and lien docket. (2) An assignment may be made by an entry on the judgment and lien docket thus: “I assign this jud…

806.19 Satisfaction of judgments. (1) (a) A judgment may be satisfied in whole or in part or as to any judgment debtor by an instrument signed and acknowledged by the owner or, if no assignment has been filed, by the owner’s attorney of record, or by an acknowledgment of satisfac…

806.20 Court may direct satisfaction; refusal to satisfy. (1) When a judgment has been fully paid but not satisfied or the satisfaction has been lost, the trial court may authorize the attorney of the judgment creditor to satisfy the judgment or may by order declare the judgment …

806.21 Judgment satisfied not a lien; partial satisfaction. If a judgment is satisfied in whole or in part or as to any judgment debtor and the satisfaction is entered in the judgment JUDGMENT 806.24 and lien docket, the judgment shall, to the extent of the satisfaction, cease to…

806.22 Satisfying a transcript of judgment. (1) If a satisfaction of a judgment has been entered on the judgment and lien docket in the county where the judgment was first entered, any of the following may be filed with the clerk of circuit court of any other county where the jud…

806.23 Action on judgment, when brought. No action shall be brought upon a judgment rendered in any court of this state between the same parties, without leave of the court, for good cause shown, on notice to the adverse party. History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 738 (1975).…

806.24 Uniform enforcement of foreign judgments act. (1) DEFINITION. In this section “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. (2) FILING AND STATUS OF FOR…

806.245 Indian tribal documents: full faith and credit. (1) The judicial records, orders and judgments of an Indian tribal court in Wisconsin and acts of an Indian tribal legislative body shall have the same full faith and credit in the courts of this state as do the acts, record…

806.25 No judgment without action. Any authorization in a note executed after June 18, 1972, for the creditor, or other person acting on the creditor’s behalf, to confess judgment for the debtor shall be void and unenforceable. History: 1973 c. 261; Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585…

806.30 Definitions. In ss. 806.30 to 806.44: (1) “Action” means a judicial proceeding or arbitration in which a money payment may be awarded or enforced with respect to a foreign-money claim. (1m) “Bank-offered spot rate” means the rate of exchange at which a bank will issue its …

806.31 Scope. (1) Sections 806.30 to 806.44 apply only to a foreign-money claim in an action or distribution proceeding. (2) Sections 806.30 to 806.44 apply to foreign-money issues notwithstanding the law applicable under the conflict of laws rules of this state to other issues i…

806.32 Variation by agreement. (1) The parties may agree to vary from the effects of ss. 806.30 to 806.44 at any time before or after the commencement of an action or distribution proceeding, or the entry of judgment. (2) The parties may agree upon the money to be used in a trans…

806.33 Determining the money of the claim. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), the proper money of the claim is one of the following: (a) The money regularly used between the parties as a matter of usage or course of dealing. (b) The money used at the time of a transaction in int…

806.34 Determining the amount of the money of certain contract claims. (1) 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. (2) If an amount contracted to be p…

806.35 Asserting and defending a foreign-money claim. (1) A claimant may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreign money is not asserted, the claimant makes a claim for a judgment in U.S. dollars. (2) An opposing party may allege and prove that the claim is, in wh…

806.36 Judgments and awards on foreign-money claims; times of money conversion; form of judgment. (1) Except as provided in sub. (3), a judgment or arbitration award on a foreign-money claim must be stated in an amount of the money of the claim. (2) The judgment or award on a for…

806.37 Conversions of foreign money in a distribution proceeding. The rate of exchange prevailing at or near the closing of business on the day the distribution proceeding is initiated shall govern all exchanges of foreign money in the proceeding. A foreign-money claimant in a di…

806.38 Prejudgment and judgment interest. (1) With respect to a foreign-money claim, recovery of prejudgment interest and the rate of interest to be applied in the action or distribution proceeding are matters of the substantive law governing the right to recovery under the confl…

806.39 Enforcement of foreign judgments. (1) Subject to subs. (2) and (3), 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 pro…

806.40 Temporarily determining the U.S. dollar value of foreign-money claims for limited purposes. (1) For the limited purpose of facilitating the enforcement of provisional remedies in an action, the value in U.S. dollars of assets to be seized or restrained pursuant to a writ o…

806.41 Effect of currency revalorizations. (1) 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 incurr…

806.42 Supplementary general principles of law. Unless displaced by ss. 806.30 to 806.44, the principles of law and equity, including the law relative to the capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy or ot…

806.43 Uniformity of application and construction. Sections 806.30 to 806.44 shall be applied and construed to effectuate the general purpose of making uniform the law with respect to the subject of ss. 806.30 to 806.44 among states enacting it. History: 1991 a. 236.

806.44 Short title. Sections 806.30 to 806.44 may be cited as the “Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act”. History: 1991 a. 236. May 22, 2026, are designated by NOTES. (Published 5-22-26)