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806.30 In ss. 806.30 to 806.44 :
806.30(1) (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.
806.30(1m) (1m) “Bank-offered spot rate” means the rate of exchange at which a bank will issue its draft in a foreign money or will cause credit to become available in a foreign money on a next-day basis.
806.30(2) (2) “Conversion date” means the banking day before the date that money is used, under ss. 806.30 to 806.44 , for one of the following:
806.30(2)(a) (a) To pay a judgment creditor.
806.30(2)(b) (b) To pay the designated official enforcing a judgment on behalf of the judgment creditor.
806.30(2)(c) (c) To effect a recoupment or setoff of claims in different moneys in an action.
806.30(3) (3) “
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806.30 In ss. 806.30 to 806.44 :
806.30(1) (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.
806.30(1m) (1m) “Bank-offered spot rate” means the rate of exchange at which a bank will issue its draft in a foreign money or will cause credit to become available in a foreign money on a next-day basis.
806.30(2) (2) “Conversion date” means the banking day before the date that money is used, under ss. 806.30 to 806.44 , for one of the following:
806.30(2)(a) (a) To pay a judgment creditor.
806.30(2)(b) (b) To pay the designated official enforcing a judgment on behalf of the judgment creditor.
806.30(2)(c) (c) To effect a recoupment or setoff of claims in different moneys in an action.
806.30(3) (3) “Distribution proceeding” means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, a liquidation or rehabilitation of a corporation or other entity or a distribution of an estate, trust or other fund in which or against which a foreign-money claim is asserted.
806.30(4) (4) “Foreign money” means money other than money authorized or adopted by the United States of America.
806.30(5) (5) “Foreign-money claim” means a claim upon an obligation to pay or a claim for recovery of a loss, expressed in or measured by a foreign money.
806.30(6) (6) “Money” means a medium of exchange for the payment of obligations or a store of value authorized or adopted by a government or by intergovernmental agreement.
806.30(8) (8) “Party” means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, partnership, or association of 2 or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity asserting or defending against a foreign-money claim.
806.30(9) (9) “Rate of exchange” means the rate at which the money of one country may be converted into money of another country in a free financial market convenient to or reasonably usable by the party obliged to pay or to state a rate of conversion. If separate rates of exchange apply to different kinds of transactions or events, the term means the rate applicable to the particular transaction or event giving rise to the foreign-money claim.
806.30(10) (10) “Spot rate” means the rate of exchange at which foreign money is sold by a bank or other dealer in foreign exchange for settlement by immediate payment, by charge to an account, or by an agreed delayed settlement not exceeding 2 days.
806.30(11) (11) “State” means a state, territory or possession of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the United States Virgin Islands.