Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 26. EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 1. STATUTORY PROVISIONS ON EVIDENCE

Part 6. Presumptions

Books Containing Laws Presumed Correct

26-1-603. Books containing laws presumed correct. Books printed or published under the authority of a sister state or foreign country and purporting to contain the statutes, code, or other written law of such state or country or proved to be commonly admitted in the tribunals of such state or country as evidence of the written law thereof are admissible in this state as evidence of such law.

History: En. Sec. 370, p. 120, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 428, p. 221, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 502, p. 137, Cod. Stat. 1871; rep. Sec. 674, p. 215, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 12, p. 12, L. 1881; re-en. Sec. 646, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; en. Sec. 3188, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7906, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 10550, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 1900; re-en. Sec. 10550, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-1001-12.