Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 70. PROPERTY

CHAPTER 2. PERSONAL PROPERTY -- SPECIAL KINDS QUIET TITLE AND PARTITION

Part 1. Special Kinds

Wild Animals

70-2-111. Wild animals. Animals wild by nature are the subjects of ownership, while living, only when on the land of the person claiming them or when tamed or taken or held in the possession or disabled and immediately pursued.

History: En. Sec. 1072, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 4423, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6665, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 656; Field Civ. C. Sec. 161; re-en. Sec. 6665, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 67-203.