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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60478</law_id><section_number>6.2-201</section_number><catch_line>Ascertaining value in money of account for money expressed in foreign currency</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="6.2">Financial Institutions and Services</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Money and Currency</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Money of Account</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> In any suit for a sum of money expressed in any foreign currency or otherwise than in the money of account of the Commonwealth, the <span class="dictionary">jury</span> or the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall ascertain the value in the money of account of the sum so expressed, including an appropriate allowance for the difference of exchange. The <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> may be for either the amount so ascertained, or for the amount of money so expressed, and the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> shall be discharged by an amount so ascertained. <a id="paragraph-221122" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-201/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In any such suit involving an instrument to which &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Instrument payable in foreign money" href="/8.3A-107/">8.3A-107</a> is applicable, the provisions of that section shall apply. <a id="paragraph-221123" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/6.2-201/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1987, c. 622, &#xA7; 6.1-330.51; 2010, c. 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
