Montana § 70-19-402 Action Or Defense Arising Out Of Title To Property Or Profits -- Possession Within 5 Years Required

Montana Statutes

§ 70-19-402 — Action Or Defense Arising Out Of Title To Property Or Profits -- Possession Within 5 Years Required

Montana·Title 70 PROPERTY·Ch. 19 REAL PROPERTY ACTIONS GENERALLY LIMITATIONS AND ADVERSE POSSESSION·Part 4 Limitations and Adverse Possession

70-19-402 . Action or defense arising out of title to property or profits -- possession within 5 years required. No cause of action or defense to an action, arising out of the title to real property or to rents or profits out of the same, can be effectual unless it appear that the person prosecuting the action or making the defense or under whose title the action is prosecuted or the defense is made or the ancestor, predecessor, or grantor of such person was seized or possessed of the premises in question within 5 years before the commencement of the act in respect to which such action is prosecuted or defense made.

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70-19-402 . Action or defense arising out of title to property or profits -- possession within 5 years required. No cause of action or defense to an action, arising out of the title to real property or to rents or profits out of the same, can be effectual unless it appear that the person prosecuting the action or making the defense or under whose title the action is prosecuted or the defense is made or the ancestor, predecessor, or grantor of such person was seized or possessed of the premises in question within 5 years before the commencement of the act in respect to which such action is prosecuted or defense made.

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Legislative History

En. Sec. 30, p. 45, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 30, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 30, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 484, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6433, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9016, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 319; re-en. Sec. 9016, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 224, L. 1953; R.C.M. 1947, 93-2505.