31-2-213. Inventory required. Within 20 days after an assignment is made for the benefit of creditors, the assignor must make and file, in the manner prescribed by 31-2-215, a full and true inventory showing:
(1) all the creditors of the assignor;
(2) the place of residence of each creditor, if known to the assignor, or if not known, that fact must be stated;
(3) the sum owing to each creditor and the nature of each debt or liability, whether arising on written security, account, or otherwise;
(4) the true consideration of the liability in each case and the place where it arose;
(5) every existing judgment, mortgage, or other security for the payment of any debt or liability of the assignor;
(6) all property of the assignor at the date of the assignment which is exempt by law from execution; and
(7) all of the assignor's property at the date of the assignment, both real and personal, of every kind, not so exempt; the encumbrances existing thereon; all vouchers and securities relating thereto; and the value of such property, according to the best knowledge of the assignor.
History: En. Sec. 4522, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6148, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8624, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3461; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1936; re-en. Sec. 8624, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-313.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 31. Credit Transactions and Relationships
Chapter 2. Debtor and Creditor Relationships
Part 2. Assignments for Benefit of Creditors
31-2-201. When debtor may execute assignment
31-2-202. Insolvency -- what constitutes
31-2-203. Certain transfers not affected
31-2-204. What debts may be secured
31-2-205. Preference given for wages
31-2-206. Preference to be absolute
31-2-207. Certain rights not affected by preferences in assignment
31-2-208. Joint and separate debts
31-2-209. Assignment -- when void
31-2-210. The instrument of assignment
31-2-211. Compliance necessary to validity of assignment
31-2-212. Assignee takes subject to rights of third parties
31-2-215. Recording assignment and filing inventory
31-2-216. Recording and filing when more than one assignor
31-2-217. Effect of failing to record
31-2-218. Assignment of real property
31-2-220. Management, disposal, and conversion of estate
31-2-221. Notice to creditors to present claims
31-2-222. Notices to parties interested in the estate as creditors or otherwise
31-2-225. When further security required
31-2-226. Accounting of assignee
31-2-229. Assignees protected for acts done in good faith
31-2-230. Assent of creditors necessary to modification of assignment