West Virginia § 55-2-13 Foreign judgments and decrees

West Virginia Statutes

§ 55-2-13 — Foreign judgments and decrees

West Virginia § 55-2-13

Ch. 55ACTIONS, SUITS AND ARBITRATION; JUDICIAL SALE

Art. 2LIMITATION OF ACTIONS AND SUITS

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W. Va. Code § 55-2-13 (2026).

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Every action or suit upon a judgment or decree rendered in any other state or country shall be barred, if by the laws of such state or country such action or suit would there be barred, and the judgment or decree be incapable of being otherwise enforced there. And whether so barred or not, no action against a person who shall have resided in this state during the ten years next preceding such action shall be brought upon any such judgment or decree rendered more than ten years before the commencement of such action.

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Every action or suit upon a judgment or decree rendered in any other state or country shall be barred, if by the laws of such state or country such action or suit would there be barred, and the judgment or decree be incapable of being otherwise enforced there. And whether so barred or not, no action against a person who shall have resided in this state during the ten years next preceding such action shall be brought upon any such judgment or decree rendered more than ten years before the commencement of such action.