Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 28 > Chapter 3 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Usage: means a reasonable and lawful public custom concerning transactions of the same nature as those which are to be affected thereby, existing at the place where the obligation is to be performed, and either known to the parties or so well established, general, and uniform that the parties must be presumed to have acted with reference thereto. See Montana Code 1-1-206