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Montana · Through Montana Code Annotated 2025

26-3-205: Effect of judgments of other foreign tribunals.

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  1. TITLE 26. EVIDENCE
  2. CHAPTER 3. EFFECT OF FORMER JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS
  3. Part 2. Effect of Specific Kinds of Judicial Records

The effect of the judgment of any other tribunal of a foreign country having jurisdiction to pronounce the judgment is as follows:

(1) In case of a judgment against a specific thing, the judgment is conclusive upon the title to the thing.

(2) In case of a judgment against a person, the judgment is presumptive evidence of a right as between the parties and their successors in interest by a subsequent title and can only be repelled by evidence of a want of jurisdiction, want of notice to the party, collusion, fraud, or clear mistake of law or fact.

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