1-3-231 - Principal

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1-3-201 - Obsolete reason, obsolete...

1-3-202 - Same reason, same rule

1-3-203 - Change in purpose

1-3-204 - Waiver of benefit of law

1-3-205 - Limit on rights

1-3-206 - Consent

1-3-207 - Acquiescence

1-3-208 - Own wrong – no advantage

1-3-209 - Fraudulent dispossession

1-3-210 - Acts on one's behalf

1-3-211 - Acts of others

1-3-212 - Benefit – burden

1-3-213 - Grant includes essentials

1-3-214 - Wrong – remedy

1-3-215 - Equal in right or wrong

1-3-216 - Preference to earliest

1-3-217 - Beyond control

1-3-218 - Vigilance

1-3-219 - Form and substance

1-3-220 - What ought to have been d...

1-3-221 - Apparent nonexistence

1-3-222 - Impossibilities

1-3-223 - Idle acts

1-3-224 - Trifles

1-3-225 - Particular versus general

1-3-226 - Preference for contempora...

1-3-227 - Smaller within larger

1-3-228 - Superfluity

1-3-229 - Certainty

1-3-230 - Void act

1-3-231 - Principal

1-3-232 - Avoiding voidness

1-3-233 - Reasonableness

1-3-234 - Third parties – who suffe...

Mont. Code Ann. § 1-3-231

Principal

The incident follows the principal and not the principal the incident.

Official Annotations

History:

EnactedEn. SectionSec. 4631, Civil CodeCiv. C. 1895

ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 6208, RevisedRev. CodeC. 1907

ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 8769, Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1921

CaliforniaCal. Civil CodeCiv. C. SectionSec. 3540

Field Code of New YorkField Civil CodeCiv. C. SectionSec. 1995

ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 8769, Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1935

Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1947, 49-132.

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