Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 9. JUDGMENT

Part 7. Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act

Determining Money Of Claim

25-9-705. Determining money of claim. (1) The money in which the parties to a transaction have agreed that payment is to be made is the proper money of the claim for payment.

(2) If the parties to a transaction have not otherwise agreed, the proper money of the claim, as in each case may be appropriate, is the money:

(a) regularly used between the parties as a matter of usage or course of dealing;

(b) used at the time of a transaction in international trade, by trade usage or common practice, for valuing or settling transactions in the particular commodity or service involved; or

(c) in which the loss was ultimately felt or will be incurred by the party claimant.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 152, L. 1993.