Montana Code Annotated 2007

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     71-3-611. Enforcement of lien. (1) The liens provided for in this part shall be enforced by a civil action in the district court of the county wherein the lien was filed and shall be governed by the laws regulating the proceedings in civil actions touching the mode and manner of trial and the proceedings and laws to secure property, so as to hold it for the satisfaction of any lien that may be against it.
     (2) Any person who shall bring a civil action to enforce the lien provided for, any person having a lien as provided for, or who shall be made a party to any such civil action has the right to demand that such lien be enforced against the whole or any part of the sawlogs, piling, railroad ties, cordwood, or other timber or manufactured lumber or shingles upon which he has performed labor or which he has assisted in securing or obtaining or which he has cut on his timberland during the 3 months next preceding the filing of his lien, for all his labor upon or for all his assistance in obtaining or securing said sawlogs, piling, railroad ties, cordwood, or other timber or in manufacturing said lumber into shingles during the whole or any part of the 3 months mentioned in 71-3-603, or for timber cut during the whole or any part of the 3 months above mentioned.
     (3) Where proceedings are commenced against any lot of sawlogs, piling, railroad ties, cordwood or other timber or lumber or shingles, as herein provided, and some of the lienors claim liens against these specific sawlogs, piling, railroad ties, cordwood, or other timber or lumber or shingles proceeded against and others against the same generally to secure their claim for work and labor, the priority of the liens shall be determined as hereinbefore provided.

     History: (1)En. Sec. 11, p. 130, L. 1899; re-en. Sec. 5829, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8328, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 8328, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 45-411, R.C.M. 1947; (2), (3)En. Sec. 12, p. 130, L. 1899; re-en. Sec. 5830, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8329, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 8329, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 45-412, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 45-411, 45-412; amd. Sec. 133, Ch. 370, L. 1987.

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