Mont. Code Ann. § 7-2-2509
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7-2-2509 Effect of name change on property and legal rights
Official statutory text
7-2-2509 . Effect of name change on property and legal rights. (1) All public records and property of the county existing under the former name shall be and become the public records and property of the county of the new name. In all conveyances, indentures, instruments, decrees of courts, and other records where the former name of the county occurs, said former name shall thereafter be construed to mean the new name of the county.
(2) All writs and processes in force and existence under the former name of the county shall thereafter be the writs and processes of and appertaining to the county under its new name. All bonds, undertakings, and sureties, alive and in existence and running to or standing in the former name of the county, shall have the same force, effect, and relation to the county under its new name as they had to the county under its former name. All suits, actions, and proceedings in law or equity pending in the district court of the county under its former name or in any of the other courts of said county shall continue in full force and be in existence in the court in which they were pending under the new name of the county and shall not be in anywise abated or affected by the change of name.
(2) All writs and processes in force and existence under the former name of the county shall thereafter be the writs and processes of and appertaining to the county under its new name. All bonds, undertakings, and sureties, alive and in existence and running to or standing in the former name of the county, shall have the same force, effect, and relation to the county under its new name as they had to the county under its former name. All suits, actions, and proceedings in law or equity pending in the district court of the county under its former name or in any of the other courts of said county shall continue in full force and be in existence in the court in which they were pending under the new name of the county and shall not be in anywise abated or affected by the change of name.
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