1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 31
  3. CHAPTER 2
  4. Part 2
  5. 31-2-208 Joint and separate debts

Montana Code Annotated 2021

TITLE 31. CREDIT TRANSACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 2. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR RELATIONSHIPS

Part 2. Assignments for Benefit of Creditors

Joint And Separate Debts

31-2-208. Joint and separate debts. Joint or joint and several debtors can prefer their joint creditors only out of joint property and can prefer the individual creditors of each only out of the separate property of each.

History: En. Sec. 4517, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6143, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 8619, R.C.M. 1921; Field Civ. C. Sec. 1931; re-en. Sec. 8619, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 18-308.