Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     27-16-403. Qualifications of sureties. The qualifications of bail shall be as follows:
     (1) Each of them must be a resident and householder or freeholder within the county.
     (2) Each must be worth the amount specified in the order of arrest or the amount to which the order is reduced, as provided in this chapter, over and above all his debts and liabilities, exclusive of property exempt from execution; but the judge or clerk, on justification, may allow more than two sureties to justify severally, in amounts less than that expressed in the order, if the whole justification be equivalent to that of two sufficient bail.

     History: En. Sec. 88, p. 150, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 96, p. 46, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 134, p. 71, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 134, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 136, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 816, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6611, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9209, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 494; re-en. Sec. 9209, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-4017.

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