Montana Code Annotated 1999

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     70-29-221. Expenses of previous litigation. If it appear that other actions or proceedings have been necessarily prosecuted or defended by any one of the tenants in common for the protection, confirmation, or perfecting of the title or setting the boundaries or making a survey or surveys of the estate partitioned, the court shall allow to the parties to the action who have paid the expense of such litigation or other proceedings all the expenses necessarily incurred therein, except counsel fees, which shall have accrued to the common benefit of the other tenants in common, with interest thereon from the date of making the expenditures, and the same must be pleaded and allowed by the court and included in the final judgment and shall be a lien upon the share of each tenant, respectively, in proportion to his interest and shall be enforced in the same manner as taxable costs of partition are taxed and collected.

     History: En. Sec. 1396, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6939, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9572, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 798; re-en. Sec. 9572, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-6357.

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