Rule 53. Title -- effective date -- statutes superseded.
     (a) Title. These rules shall be known as the Montana Rules of Appellate Procedure and may be cited as M.R.App.P.
     (b) Effective date and application to pending proceedings. These rules will take effect on January 1, 1966. They govern all appeals and original proceedings brought after they take effect, and also all further proceedings in appeals and original proceedings then pending, except to the extent that in the opinion of the supreme court their application in a particular appeal or original proceeding pending when the rules take effect would not be feasible, or would work injustice, in which event the procedure existing at the time the appeal or original proceeding was brought applies.
     (c) Statutes and rules superseded. Upon the taking effect of these rules all statutes and rules, and parts thereof, in conflict herewith, and the statutes and rules listed in Tables A, B, C, and D are superseded in respect of practice and procedure on appeals from the district courts to the supreme court and in original proceedings brought in the supreme court.

     History: En. Sup. Ct. Ord. 11020, Dec. 10, 1965, eff. Jan. 1, 1966; amd. and redes. Sup. Ct. Ord. June 16, 1986, eff. Jan. 19, 1987.