§ 1723.Recognition Under Principles of Comity Or Otherwise

This chapter's recognition standards apply to a specific category of foreign-country judgments, but plenty of foreign judgments fall outside that category, domestic-relations judgments excluded under Section 1715 among them. This section makes clear that leaving those judgments outside this chapter's coverage does not mean California courts are barred from recognizing them at all.

Instead, a foreign-country judgment not within this chapter's scope remains eligible for recognition under principles of comity, the long-standing doctrine under which courts voluntarily give effect to another country's judgments as a matter of respect and reciprocity, or under whatever other legal basis might otherwise apply. This chapter supplements, rather than displaces, those older avenues for recognizing judgments it does not itself reach.