Montana Code Annotated 2007

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     70-29-212. Judgment upon confirmation of report -- effect. (1) The court may confirm, change, modify, or set aside the report and if necessary appoint new referees.
     (2) Upon the report being confirmed, judgment must be rendered that such partition be effectual forever, which judgment is binding and conclusive on all:
     (a) persons named as parties to the action and their legal representatives, who have at the time any interest in the property divided or any part thereof, as owners in fee or as tenants for life or for years or as entitled to the reversion, remainder, or the inheritance of such property or any part thereof after the determination of a particular estate therein, and who by any contingency may be entitled to a beneficial interest in the property or who have an interest in any undivided share thereof, as tenants for years or for life;
     (b) persons interested in the property, who may be unknown, to whom notice has been given of the action for partition by publication;
     (c) other persons claiming from such parties or persons or either of them.
     (3) No judgment is invalidated by reason of the death of any party before final judgment or decree, but such judgment or decree is as conclusive against the heirs, legal representatives, or assigns of such decedent as if it had been entered before his death.

     History: En. Sec. 506, p. 143, Bannack Stat.; amd. Sec. 278, p. 192, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 327, p. 100, Cod. Stat. 1871; amd. Sec. 378, p. 143, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 378, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 391, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; en. Sec. 1361, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6904, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9537, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 766; re-en. Sec. 9537, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-6322.

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