Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 26. EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 2. SUBPOENAS AND WITNESSES

Part 1. Subpoenas

Subpoena Defined

26-2-101. Subpoena defined. The process by which the attendance of a witness is required is by a subpoena. A subpoena is a writ or order directed to a person and requiring the person's attendance at a particular time and place to testify as a witness. The subpoena may also require the person to bring with the person any books, documents, or other things under the person's control that the person is bound by law to produce in evidence.

History: En. Sec. 380, p. 212, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 454, p. 127, Cod. Stat. 1871; re-en. Sec. 633, p. 204, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 633, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 654, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; en. Sec. 3300, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7974, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 10618, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 1985; re-en. Sec. 10618, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-1501-3; amd. Sec. 541, Ch. 56, L. 2009.