Powers respecting conduct of business
Every court has power to:
(1) preserve and enforce order in its immediate presence;
(2) enforce order in the proceedings before it or before a person or persons empowered to conduct a judicial investigation under its authority;
(3) provide for the orderly conduct of proceedings before it or its officers;
(4) compel obedience to its judgments, orders, and process and to the orders of a judge out of court in an action or proceeding pending therein;
(5) control, in furtherance of justice, the conduct of its ministerial officers and of all other persons in any manner connected with a judicial proceeding before it in every other matter appertaining thereto;
(6) compel the attendance of persons to testify in an action or proceeding pending therein in the cases and manner provided in this code;
(7) administer oaths in an action or proceeding pending therein and in all other cases where it may be necessary in the exercise of its powers and duties;
(8) amend and control its process and orders so as to make them conformable to law and justice.
| EnactedEn. SectionSec. 452, pagep. 134, Bannack StatutesStat. |
| ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 609, pagep. 159, CodifiedCod. StatutesStat. 1871 |
| ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 529, pagep. 178, Laws ofL. 1877 |
| ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 529, 1st DivisionDiv. RevisedRev. StatutesStat. 1879 |
| ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 546, 1st DivisionDiv. CompiledComp. StatutesStat. 1887 |
| AmendedAmd. SectionSec. 110, Code of Civil ProcedureC. Civ. Proc. 1895 |
| ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 6292, RevisedRev. CodeC. 1907 |
| ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 8844, Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1921 |
| CaliforniaCal. Code of Civil ProcedureC. Civ. Proc. SectionSec. 128 |
| ReenactedRe-en. SectionSec. 8844, Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1935 |
| Revised Codes of MontanaR.C.M. 1947, 93-501. |