§ 9-12-110.Short title

A short-title section lets courts, lawyers, and researchers refer to an entire set of Code sections by one recognizable name instead of a string of section numbers. This one names the article that follows the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act — a name that signals two things at once: the article deals specifically with judgments from foreign countries, and it is drawn from a uniform act meant to keep Georgia's approach consistent with other states that have adopted similar legislation.

That word "foreign-country" is doing precise work and should not be confused with a judgment from another U.S. state. Georgia has a separate article, later in this same chapter, for enforcing judgments from sister states within the United States. This article instead covers judgments rendered by courts of actual foreign nations — governments outside the reach of the Full Faith and Credit Clause that binds American states to one another.

The section itself sets up the name only; the substantive rules — what judgments qualify, the grounds for refusing recognition, and the effect recognition has — appear in the Code sections that follow within this same article.