70-6-404. Rate of compensation for fraction of week or half month. In the absence of a different agreement or usage, a depositary for hire is entitled to 1 week’s hire for the sustenance and shelter of living animals during any fraction of a week and to half a month’s hire for the storage of any other property during any fraction of a half month.

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Terms Used In Montana Code 70-6-404

  • Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
  • 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