27-1-804. What communications are privileged. A privileged publication is one made:

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Terms Used In Montana Code 27-1-804

  • Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201

(1)in the proper discharge of an official duty;

(2)in any legislative or judicial proceeding or in any other official proceeding authorized by law;

(3)in a communication without malice to a person interested therein by one who is also interested or by one who stands in such relation to the person interested as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing the motive for the communication innocent or who is requested by the person interested to give the information;

(4)by a fair and true report without malice of a judicial, legislative, or other public official proceeding or of anything said in the course thereof.