Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 27. CIVIL LIABILITY, REMEDIES, AND LIMITATIONS

CHAPTER 1. AVAILABILITY OF REMEDIES -- LIABILITY

Part 3. Measure of Damages

Breach Of Agreement To Buy Real Property

27-1-315. Breach of agreement to buy real property. The detriment caused by the breach of an agreement to purchase an estate in real property is considered to be the excess, if any, of the amount that would have been due to the seller under the contract over the value of the property to the seller.

History: En. Sec. 4307, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6055, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8673, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 3307; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1847; re-en. Sec. 8673, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 17-307; amd. Sec. 566, Ch. 56, L. 2009.