Montana Code 30-1-102. Purposes — rules of construction
30-1-102. Purposes — rules of construction. (1) This code must be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies, which are:
Terms Used In Montana Code 30-1-102
- 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
(a)to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions;
(b)to permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage, and agreement of the parties;
(c)to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.
(2)In this code unless the context otherwise requires:
(a)words in the singular number include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;
(b)words of the masculine gender include the feminine and the neuter, and when the sense so indicates words of the neuter gender may refer to any gender.