Montana Title 71. Mortgages, Pledges, and Liens § 71-3-1211. Agister's lien--finding--who may hold lien

(2)(a) If there is an express or implied contract for keeping, feeding, herding, pasturing, or ranching stock, a rancher, farmer, agister, herder, hotelkeeper, livery, stablekeeper, or reproductive technology business to whom any horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs, or other stock are entrusted has an agister's lien upon the stock for the amount due for keeping, feeding, herding, pasturing, or ranching the stock.

(b) A person holding an agister's lien pursuant to subsection (2)(a) may retain possession of the stock until the amount due is paid.