Montana Code Annotated
Part 4. Limitations and Adverse Possession
70-19-411. Occupancy and payment of taxes necessary to prove adverse possession

70-19-411. Occupancy and payment of taxes necessary to prove adverse possession. In no case shall adverse possessions be considered established under this code unless it shall be shown that the land has been occupied and claimed for a period of 5 years continuously and the party or persons, their predecessors, and grantors have during such period paid all the taxes, state, county, or municipal, which have been legally levied and assessed upon said land.
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 3, L. 1917; re-en. Sec. 9024, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 9024, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 224, L. 1953; R.C.M. 1947, 93-2513.

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Montana Code Annotated

Title 70. Property

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

70-19-402. Action or defense arising out of title to property or profits -- 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

70-19-406. Simple occupancy

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

70-19-426. Residential construction disputes -- definitions

70-19-427. Residential construction disputes -- limitation on consumer protection actions -- notice and opportunity to repair -- tolling of statute of limitations -- presumption of compliance with construction standards

70-19-428. Construction defect disputes -- damages