Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 71. MORTGAGES, PLEDGES, AND LIENS

CHAPTER 1. MORTGAGES

Part 3. Small Tract Financing

Trustee's Deed

71-1-318. Trustee's deed. (1) The trustee's deed to the purchaser at the trustee's sale may contain, in addition to a description of the property conveyed, recitals of compliance with the requirements of this part relating to the exercise of the power of sale and the sale, including recitals of the facts concerning the default, the notice given, the conduct of the sale, and the receipt of the purchase money from the purchaser.

(2) When the trustee's deed is recorded in the deed records of the county or counties where the property described in the deed is situated, the recitals contained in the deed and in the affidavits required under 71-1-315(2) are prima facie evidence in any court of the truth of the matters set forth in the recitals, except that the recitals are conclusive evidence in favor of subsequent bona fide purchasers and encumbrancers for value and without notice.

(3) The trustee's deed operates to convey to the purchaser, without right of redemption, the trustee's title and all right, title, interest, and claim of the grantor and the grantor's successors in interest and of all persons claiming by, through, or under them in and to the property sold, including all right, title, interest, and claim in and to the property acquired by the grantor or the grantor's successors in interest subsequent to the execution of the trust indenture.

History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 177, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 52-410; amd. Sec. 2253, Ch. 56, L. 2009.