Montana Code Annotated 2005

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     3-10-514. Docket of predecessor. Any justice with whom the docket of his predecessor or of any other justice is deposited has and may exercise over all actions and proceedings entered in such docket the same jurisdiction as if originally commenced before him. In the case of the creation of a new county or the change of the boundary between two counties, any justice into whose hands the docket of a justice formerly acting as such within the same territory may come is, for the purpose of this section, considered the successor of such former justice.

     History: En. Sec. 1665, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7075, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9708, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 916; re-en. Sec. 9708, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-7606.

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