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.
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.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 19. Real Property Actions Generally Limitations and Adverse Possession
Part 4. Limitations and Adverse Possession
70-19-401. Action for recovery -- possession within 5 years required
70-19-403. When action on claim by entry must be commenced
70-19-404. Presumption of possession within prescribed period -- adverse possession as exception
70-19-405. Title by prescription
70-19-407. Occupancy under claim founded on instrument or judgment -- when considered adverse
70-19-408. Claim founded on instrument or judgment -- what considered possession and occupation
70-19-409. Actual occupancy under claim of title not founded on instrument or judgment -- adverse
70-19-410. Claim of title not founded on instrument or judgment -- what considered occupation
70-19-411. Occupancy and payment of taxes necessary to prove adverse possession
70-19-412. Relation of landlord and tenant as affecting adverse possession
70-19-413. Certain disabilities to suspend running of statutory period
70-19-414. Right of possession not affected by descent cast
70-19-415. through 70-19-420 reserved
70-19-421. Action to recover royalty interest in land sold for taxes
70-19-422. through 70-19-425 reserved