Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 70. PROPERTY

CHAPTER 1. PROPERTY IN GENERAL REAL AND PERSONAL

Part 2. General Rights of State Over Property

Escheat

70-1-203. Escheat. Whenever the title to any property fails for want of heirs or next of kin, it reverts to the state. All property within the limits of this state which does not belong to any person belongs to the state.

History: En. Sec. 61, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 27, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 28, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Pol. C. Sec. 41; re-en. Sec. 28, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 67-102.