Title 565, CONVEYANCES OF REAL PROPERTY

Sec. 2. When a deed or other conveyance made by an executor, administrator, guardian, commissioner, sheriff, marshal or person acting under authority of an order of court, is left for record, the register of deeds shall enter in the indexes of the officer or person the names of t…

Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the registers of deeds, in the several counties of this state, to receive for record, and record all patents of lands, from the United States, or this state, or any copy thereof, duly certified by the commissioner of the United States general land …

Sec. 2. The record of a patent, recorded in the register's office or a transcript of such record certified by the register in whose office the same may be recorded, under his hand, may be read in evidence, in any court in this state, without further proof thereof.

Sec. 1. That all deeds of lands situated within this state, heretofore or hereafter made without this state, and executed according to the laws of the place where made, and acknowledged to be the free act of the grantor or grantors therein named, before any person authorized to t…

Sec. 2. All deeds of lands situated in this state, heretofore or hereafter made by any married woman jointly with her husband by their attorney in fact, under a joint power of attorney, executed and acknowledged as required in the joint deed of a husband and wife, and recorded in…

Sec. 3. No deed of lands situate in this state heretofore or hereafter executed, shall be deemed defective by reason of any informality or imperfection in the certificate of acknowledgment, if it shall sufficiently appear by such certificate that the person making the same was le…

Sec. 4. No conveyance of land or instrument intended to operate as such conveyance, made in good faith and upon a valuable consideration, whether heretofore made or hereafter to be made, shall be wholly void by reason of any defect in any statutory requisite in the sealing, signi…

Sec. 1. (1) By majority vote, the board of supervisors of an organized county that is attached to another county for judicial purposes may direct the register of deeds of the board's county, either in person or by deputy, to provide sufficient books, and procure and record in tho…

Sec. 2. All counties that now are or may hereafter be organized shall have all the rights and privileges specified in the first section of this act.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the register of the county applying for a copy of records to transcribe the same in the book or books to be provided for that purpose as aforesaid; and the said register shall receive for his services the fees allowed to registers for recording dee…

Sec. 4. The supervisors are authorized and directed to make such further compensation to the register who may transcribe such record as may be proper and just.

Sec. 1. The state administrative board is hereby authorized to discharge liens, mortgages and other claims of interest in land on record in favor of the state of Michigan, or any of its departments, boards, commissions, institutions or agencies, in which the state has no interest…

Sec. 2. Any such discharge heretofore executed by the state administrative board is hereby validated.

Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Transfer fee" means a fee or charge payable upon the subsequent sale, gift, conveyance, assignment, inheritance, or other transfer of an ownership interest in nonresidential real property located in this state, or payable for the right to make or…

Sec. 2. A transfer fee covenant that is executed on or after the effective date of this section, whether or not recorded, does not run with the title to real property and is not binding on or enforceable against any subsequent owner, purchaser, or mortgagee of any interest in the…

Sec. 3. Any lien purporting to secure the payment of a transfer fee under a transfer fee covenant that is executed on or after the effective date of this section is void.

Sec. 4. (1) Any person aggrieved by the imposition of a transfer fee, whether the original or subsequent transferee or purchaser, may bring an action to clear the title and void the transfer fee and for other equitable relief. (2) In a successful action brought under subsection (…

Sec. 1. As used in this act: (a) "Transfer fee" means a fee or charge payable upon the subsequent sale, gift, conveyance, assignment, inheritance, or other transfer of an ownership interest in residential real property located in this state, or payable for the right to make or ac…

Sec. 2. A transfer fee covenant that is executed on or after the effective date of this section, whether or not recorded, does not run with the title to real property and is not binding on or enforceable against any subsequent owner, purchaser, or mortgagee of any interest in the…

Sec. 3. Any lien purporting to secure the payment of a transfer fee under a transfer fee covenant that is executed on or after the effective date of this section is void.

Sec. 4. (1) Any person aggrieved by the imposition of a transfer fee, whether the original or subsequent transferee or purchaser, may bring an action to clear the title and void the transfer fee and for other equitable relief. (2) In a successful action brought under subsection (…

Sec. 1. Any contract hereafter made in this state for the purchase and sale of realty shall be interpreted as including an agreement that the parties shall have the following rights and duties, unless the contract expressly provides otherwise: (a) If, when neither the legal title…

Sec. 2. This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

Sec. 3. This may be cited as the uniform vendor and purchaser risk act.

Sec. 1. (1) A register of deeds shall furnish proper and reasonable facilities for the inspection and examination of the records and files in his or her office, and for making memorandums or transcripts from the records and files during the usual business hours, to an individual …

Sec. 1. In all cases where a deed, mortgage, or other instrument affecting the title to real estate, shall have been, or shall be executed, affecting land in 2 or more counties, and when the same shall have been duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds in any county i…

Sec. 1. That hereafter the acknowledgment of any married woman to a deed of conveyance or other instrument affecting real property, may be taken in the same manner as if she were sole.

Sec. 2. Any acknowledgment of any married woman to a deed of conveyance or other instrument affecting real property taken since the fourth day of August, A.D. 1875, in the same manner as if such married woman had been sole, is hereby declared valid and effectual for all intents a…

Sec. 1. Hereafter the affixing of an actual seal, a scroll or device used as a seal, the word "seal" or letters "L.S." after the signature of any individual, partnership or corporation executing any deed, mortgage, or other instrument affecting the title to real estate, or any in…

Sec. 2. The record of any instrument affecting the title to real estate or any interest therein heretofore recorded which does not show that an actual seal, a scroll or device used as a seal, the word "seal" or the letters "L.S." was affixed to the original instrument, or a trans…

Sec. 1. Hereafter, in or in connection with any existing or future mortgage or deed of trust, it shall be lawful to assign in the mortgage or in a separate written instrument or instruments signed, sealed, acknowledged and proved in the same manner as deeds, all or any part of th…

Sec. 2. The assignment may contain provisions making it immediately operative, or operative only upon the happening of an event of default as described in the assignment or in the mortgage or deed of trust, or operative at such time as the mortgagee or trustee named in the mortga…

Sec. 3. The assignment shall become and be and remain effective and a good and valid assignment as against all persons, including the mortgagor or those claiming under or through him, from and after the date of execution and delivery thereof, subject however, as in the case of co…

Sec. 4. The assignment shall become and be and remain in full force and effect until all of the indebtedness secured by the mortgage or deed of trust is fully paid, satisfied and discharged and the effectiveness in nowise shall be limited, suspended, revoked, or terminated by the…

Sec. 5. The term "oil and gas" as used herein, shall include oil or gas, or both, and the term "oil and gas properties", as used herein, shall include all types of fee, royalty, leasehold and contract interests and rights, in whole or in part, in all or any part of one or more pa…

Sec. 1. That whenever it shall be made to appear to any court of record by petition duly verified that a sale of real estate has or may hereafter be made in pursuance of a decree or order, or to satisfy any judgment of such court, and that a deed has been made therein, and said d…

Sec. 2. Such new deed shall be executed by the officer who made such sale, or by his successor in office: Provided, That in counties having 2 circuit court commissioners, if the commissioner who made such sale shall not be then in office, either of the then commissioners may be d…

Sec. 3. No conveyance shall be made under this act, excepting upon notice of the application, which notice shall be by personal service thereof, except where the opposite party or parties are non-residents of the state, in which latter case, the court may order publication of suc…

Sec. 1. That the county commissioners of the respective counties of this state, be, and they are hereby authorized, if in the opinion of the commissioners they shall deem it necessary, to cause the registers of their respective counties, to prepare a general index to all books in…

Sec. 2. That no compensation shall be allowed for indexing in the general index, deeds, mortgages and other instruments, that shall be left for record after the general index books shall be furnished to the registers of the respective counties, or when said books may have been al…

Sec. 1. (1) All written instruments conveying or mortgaging real estate or any interest in real estate executed and offered for record before April 6, 2017 must state whether any male grantors, mortgagors, or other parties executing the instrument are married or single, and the r…

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "seller disclosure act".

Sec. 2. The seller disclosure requirements of sections 4 to 13 apply to the transfer of any interest in real estate consisting of not less than 1 or more than 4 residential dwelling units, whether by sale, exchange, installment land contract, lease with an option to purchase, any…

Sec. 3. The seller disclosure requirements of sections 4 to 13 do not apply to any of the following: (a) Transfers pursuant to court order, including, but not limited to, transfers ordered by a probate court in administration of an estate, transfers pursuant to a writ of executio…

Sec. 4. (1) The transferor of any real property described in section 2 shall deliver to the transferor's agent or to the prospective transferee or the transferee's agent the written statement required by this act. If the written statement is delivered to the transferor's agent, t…

Sec. 5. (1) The transferor or his or her agent is not liable for any error, inaccuracy, or omission in any information delivered pursuant to this act if the error, inaccuracy, or omission was not within the personal knowledge of the transferor, or was based entirely on informatio…