A contract is to be interpreted according to the law and usage of the place where it is to be performed or, if it does not indicate a place of performance, according to the law and usage of the place where it is made.
Mont. Code Ann. § 28-3-102
What law and usage to govern interpretation
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 756 F. Supp. 1380 - Omaha Property & Casualty Co. v. Crosby (1990)
Most recently applied in Judith Newman v. United Fire & Casualty Co (September 2016)
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How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.