31-2-215. Recording assignment and filing inventory. An assignment for the benefit of creditors must be recorded and the inventory required by 31-2-213 must be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the assignor resided at the date of the assignment or, if the assignor did not reside in this state at that time, with the clerk of the county in which the assignor's principal place of business was situated or, if the assignor did not have a residence or place of business in this state, with the clerk of the county in which the principal part of the assigned property was situated at the time of the assignment.
History: En. Sec. 4524, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6150, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8626, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3463; Based on Field Civ. C. Sec. 1938; re-en. Sec. 8626, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-315; amd. Sec. 994, Ch. 56, L. 2009.
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