70-6-103. Involuntary deposit — how made. An involuntary deposit is made:

Terms Used In Montana Code 70-6-103

  • Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: means money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Montana Code 1-1-205

(1)by the accidental leaving or placing of personal property in the possession of any person, without negligence on the part of the owner; or

(2)in cases of fire, shipwreck, inundation, insurrection, riot, or like extraordinary emergencies, by the owner of personal property committing it out of necessity to the care of any person.