Montana Code Annotated
Title 27. Civil Liability, Remedies, and Limitations
Chapter 17. Claim and Delivery of Personal Property

Part 1. General Provisions

27-17-101. When plaintiff may claim delivery - 27-17-101. When plaintiff may claim delivery. The plaintiff in an...

27-17-102. Claim and delivery in justice's court - 27-17-102. Claim and delivery in justice's court. Parts 2, 3,...

Part 2. Procedure for Obtaining Seizure of Property

27-17-201. Plaintiff's affidavit - 27-17-201. Plaintiff's affidavit. When a delivery is claimed, an affidavit...

27-17-202. Description of property in affidavit - 27-17-202. Description of property in affidavit. Where the affidavit describes...

27-17-203. Order from judge - 27-17-203. Order from judge. The sheriff may not make a...

27-17-204. Endorsement requiring sheriff to take property - 27-17-204. Endorsement requiring sheriff to take property. The plaintiff or...

27-17-205. Plaintiff's undertaking -- service and execution by sheriff - 27-17-205. Plaintiff's undertaking -- service and execution by sheriff. Upon...

27-17-206. Manner of seizure of concealed property - 27-17-206. Manner of seizure of concealed property. If the property...

27-17-207. Seizure when part of property cannot be found - 27-17-207. Seizure when part of property cannot be found. The...

27-17-208. Security for sheriff's costs when property seized - 27-17-208. Security for sheriff's costs when property seized. If the...

Part 3. Procedure Following Seizure by Sheriff

27-17-301. Duty of sheriff to keep and deliver property - 27-17-301. Duty of sheriff to keep and deliver property. When...

27-17-302. Sheriff's return of execution - 27-17-302. Sheriff's return of execution. The sheriff shall file the...

27-17-303. Exception to plaintiff's sureties -- justification -- liability of sheriff - 27-17-303. Exception to plaintiff's sureties -- justification -- liability of...

27-17-304. When defendant may require return of property -- undertaking - 27-17-304. When defendant may require return of property -- undertaking....

27-17-305. Return of part of the property - 27-17-305. Return of part of the property. Where the plaintiff's...

27-17-306. Justification of defendant's sureties -- liability of sheriff - 27-17-306. Justification of defendant's sureties -- liability of sheriff. The...

27-17-307. Procedure for qualification and justification of sureties - 27-17-307. Procedure for qualification and justification of sureties. The qualification...

27-17-308. Delivery of property to plaintiff if not returned to defendant - 27-17-308. Delivery of property to plaintiff if not returned to...

27-17-309. Claim of property by third person -- plaintiff to indemnify sheriff - 27-17-309. Claim of property by third person -- plaintiff to...

27-17-310. Answer of defendant claiming third person entitled to property - 27-17-310. Answer of defendant claiming third person entitled to property....

27-17-311. Remedies of plaintiff following delivery by sheriff - 27-17-311. Remedies of plaintiff following delivery by sheriff. (1) When,...

Part 4. Judgment -- Return of Property

27-17-401. Form of judgment - 27-17-401. Form of judgment. (1) In an action to recover...

27-17-402. Duty to return property in good condition - 27-17-402. Duty to return property in good condition. In all...

27-17-403. Action for value of property and damages - 27-17-403. Action for value of property and damages. In case...

27-17-404. Return of damaged property to officer for sale - 27-17-404. Return of damaged property to officer for sale. In...

27-17-405. Continuing liability of sureties - 27-17-405. Continuing liability of sureties. Such second taking of such...