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TITLE 1. GENERAL LAWS AND DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 2. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION
Part 1. General Provisions
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Mont. Code Ann. § 1-2-101

Role of the judge – preference to construction giving each provision meaning

In the construction of a statute, the office of the judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted or to omit what has been inserted. Where there are several provisions or particulars, such a construction is, if possible, to be adopted as will give effect to all.

Official Annotations
History:
En. Sec. 612, p. 198, L. 1877
Re-en. Sec. 612, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879
Re-en. Sec. 630, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887
Re-en. Sec. 3134, C. Civ. Proc. 1895
Re-en. Sec. 7875, Rev. C. 1907
Re-en. Sec. 10519, R.C.M. 1921
Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 1858
Re-en. Sec. 10519, R.C.M. 1935
R.C.M. 1947, 93-401-15(part).
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