Notice -- actual and constructive
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Armstrong v. Trout (In Re Trout) (1992)
Most recently applied in 83 F. App'x 958 - Ahmann v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance (December 2003)
(1)En
(1) Notice is:
(a) actual whenever it consists of express information of a fact;
(b) constructive whenever it is imputed by law.
(2) Each person who has actual notice of circumstances sufficient to put a prudent person upon inquiry as to a particular fact has constructive notice of the fact itself in all cases in which, by prosecuting the inquiry, the person might have learned the facts.
Official source: Montana Code Annotated (Montana Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Montana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.