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- 1-2-112 · Statutes imposing new local government duties.
- 1-2-113 · Statutes imposing new duties on a school district to provide means of financing.
- 1-2-114 · Bill restriction.
- 1-2-115 · Enforcement.
- 1-2-116 · State agencies not to shift cost to local governments.
- 1-2-117 · Construction of right of individual privacy.
- 1-2-201 · Statutes -- effective date.
- 1-2-202 · Joint resolutions -- effective date.
- 1-2-203 · Effect of amendment of statute.
- 1-2-204 · Amendment of repealed act void.
- 1-2-205 · Repeal of law creating criminal offense.
- 1-2-206 · Repeal of repealed statute.
- 1-2-207 · Repeal of repealing act -- no revival.
- 1-2-208 · Provisions of law not codified in Montana Code Annotated because redundant.
- 1-2-209 · Revision of termination date -- conflicting amendments -- no revival of terminated amendment.
- 1-3-101 · Purpose of maxims.
- 1-3-102 · 1-3-102 through 1-3-109 reserved.
- 1-3-110 · (Effective on occurrence of contingency) Mountain daylight time.
- 1-3-201 · Obsolete reason, obsolete rule.
- 1-3-202 · Same reason, same rule.
- 1-3-203 · Change in purpose.
- 1-3-204 · Waiver of benefit of law.
- 1-3-205 · Limit on rights.
- 1-3-206 · Consent.
- 1-3-207 · Acquiescence.
- 1-3-208 · Own wrong -- no advantage.
- 1-3-209 · Fraudulent dispossession.
- 1-3-210 · Acts on one's behalf.
- 1-3-211 · Acts of others.
- 1-3-212 · Benefit -- burden.
- 1-3-213 · Grant includes essentials.
- 1-3-214 · Wrong -- remedy.
- 1-3-215 · Equal in right or wrong.
- 1-3-216 · Preference to earliest.
- 1-3-217 · Beyond control.
- 1-3-218 · Vigilance.
- 1-3-219 · Form and substance.
- 1-3-220 · What ought to have been done.
- 1-3-221 · Apparent nonexistence.
- 1-3-222 · Impossibilities.
- 1-3-223 · Idle acts.
- 1-3-224 · Trifles.
- 1-3-225 · Particular versus general.
- 1-3-226 · Preference for contemporaneity.
- 1-3-227 · Smaller within larger.
- 1-3-228 · Superfluity.
- 1-3-229 · Certainty.
- 1-3-230 · Void act.
- 1-3-231 · Principal.
- 1-3-232 · Avoiding voidness.
- 1-3-233 · Reasonableness.
- 1-3-234 · Third parties -- who suffers.
- 1-4-101 · Role of the judge -- preference to construction giving each provision meaning.
- 1-4-102 · Consideration of circumstances surrounding execution.
- 1-4-103 · Intention of the parties -- particular and general provisions.
- 1-4-104 · Preference to construction favoring natural right.
- 1-4-105 · Written words versus words in printed form.
- 1-4-106 · Interpretation of language according to usage in place of execution.
- 1-4-107 · Construction of terms.
- 1-4-108 · Construction of the terms of a notice.
- 1-4-109 · Superseded.
- 1-4-110 · Hydrocarbons distinguished.
- 1-4-111 · Purpose.
- 1-4-112 · Fossils distinguished.
- 1-4-201 · Seal defined.
- 1-4-202 · Manner of making a seal.
- 1-4-203 · Acceptance of foreign seals.
- 1-4-204 · Distinctions between sealed and unsealed abolished.
- 1-4-205 · Effect of instruments without a seal.
- 1-4-206 · Change in writing under seal by unsealed writing.
- 1-4-207 · Compromise or settlement of a debt by unsealed writing.
- 1-5-101 · Repealed.
- 1-5-102 · Repealed.
- 1-5-103 · Repealed.
- 1-5-104 · Repealed.
- 1-5-105 · Repealed.
- 1-5-106 · Repealed.
- 1-5-107 · Repealed.
- 1-5-108 · Repealed.
- 1-5-109 · Repealed.
- 1-5-110 · Repealed.
- 1-5-201 · Repealed.
- 1-5-202 · Repealed.
- 1-5-203 · Repealed.
- 1-5-204 · Repealed.
- 1-5-205 · Repealed.
- 1-5-206 · Repealed.
- 1-5-207 · Repealed.
- 1-5-208 · Repealed.
- 1-5-301 · Who may prove execution of instrument.
- 1-5-302 · When execution may be proved by handwriting.
- 1-5-303 · Facts that must be shown when offering proof of handwriting.
- 1-5-304 · Powers of officer taking proof of execution.
- 1-5-305 · Contents of certificate of proof.
- 1-5-401 · Repealed.
- 1-5-402 · Repealed.
- 1-5-403 · Repealed.
- 1-5-404 · Repealed.
- 1-5-405 · Repealed.
- 1-5-406 · Repealed.