1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 25
  3. CHAPTER 31
  4. Part 7
  5. 25-31-709 Time limit on adjournment -- undertaking

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 31. PROCEDURE IN JUSTICES' COURTS

Part 7. Time of Trial -- Postponements

Time Limit On Adjournment -- Undertaking

25-31-709. Time limit on adjournment -- undertaking. No adjournment may be granted upon the application of either party for a period longer than 10 days unless the opposite party consents or the party applying files an undertaking, in an amount fixed by the justice, with two sureties to be approved by the justice, to the effect that they will pay to the opposite party the amount of any judgment which may be recovered against the party applying, not exceeding the sum specified in the undertaking.

History: En. Sec. 598, p. 162, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 704, p. 178, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 764, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 784, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 1594, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7037, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9670, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 877; re-en. Sec. 9670, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-7105; amd. Sec. 123, Ch. 575, L. 1981.