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TITLE 26. EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 2. SUBPOENAS AND WITNESSES
Part 3. Duties of Witnesses
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26-2-301
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26-2-303
Mont. Code Ann. § 26-2-302
(2011)

Witness required to answer questions

A witness shall answer questions legal and pertinent to the matter in issue though the answer may establish a claim against the witness. However, the witness is not required to give an answer that will have a tendency to subject the witness to punishment for a felony or to give an answer that will have a direct tendency to degrade the witness's character unless the answer is to the very fact in issue or to a fact from which the fact in issue would be presumed.

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History:
En. Sec. 328, p. 112, Bannack Stat.
Re-en. Sec. 386, p. 213, L. 1867
Re-en. Sec. 460, p. 128, Cod. Stat. 1871
Re-en. Sec. 639, p. 206, L. 1877
Re-en. Sec. 639, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879
Re-en. Sec. 660, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887
Amd. Sec. 3401, C. Civ. Proc. 1895
Re-en. Sec. 8030, Rev. C. 1907
Re-en. Sec. 10674, R.C.M. 1921
Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 2065
Re-en. Sec. 10674, R.C.M 1935
R.C.M. 1947, 93-2101-2
Amd. Sec. 18, Ch. 72, L. 1983
Amd. Sec. 551, Ch. 56, L. 2009 (HB 37 - Campbell, Margarett (D) HD 31)
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