1-3-208. Own wrong -- no advantage. A person may not take advantage of the person's own wrong.
History: En. Sec. 4608; Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6185, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8746, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3517; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1972; re-en. Sec. 8746, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 49-109; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 61, L. 2007.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 1. General Laws and Definitions
Chapter 3. Maxims of Jurisprudence
1-3-201. Obsolete reason, obsolete rule
1-3-202. Same reason, same rule
1-3-204. Waiver of benefit of law
1-3-208. Own wrong -- no advantage
1-3-209. Fraudulent dispossession
1-3-213. Grant includes essentials
1-3-215. Equal in right or wrong
1-3-216. Preference to earliest
1-3-220. What ought to have been done
1-3-221. Apparent nonexistence
1-3-225. Particular versus general
1-3-226. Preference for contemporaneity