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MI Comp L § 565.451b (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 123 of 1915 - Recording Affidavits Affecting Real Property (565.451 - 565.453)|Section 565.451b - Affidavit Stating Facts Relating to Matters Affecting Realty; Perjury.

565.451b Affidavit stating facts relating to matters affecting realty; perjury. Sec. 1b.  Any person who knowingly makes any false statement in an affidavit is guilty of perjury. History: Add. 1965, Act 178, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965
MI Comp L § 565.451c (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 123 of 1915 - Recording Affidavits Affecting Real Property (565.451 - 565.453)|Section 565.451c - Affidavit Stating Fact Relating to Matters Affecting Realty; Land Description.

565.451c Affidavit stating fact relating to matters affecting realty; land description. Sec. 1c.  The affidavit shall include a description of the land, title to which may be affected by facts stated in the affidavit. If there appears in the regular chain of title of the land a deed, will, mortgage or other instrument affecting the title which contains a full and adequate description of the land, the description may be incorporated in the affidavit by reference to the record of the instrument in the register of deeds office in lieu of including the full description of the land. History: Add. 1965, Act 178, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965
MI Comp L § 565.451d (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 123 of 1915 - Recording Affidavits Affecting Real Property (565.451 - 565.453)|Section 565.451d - Correction of Errors or Omissions; Affidavit.

565.451d Correction of errors or omissions; affidavit.Sec. 1d.  (1) An affidavit to correct the following types of errors or omissions in previously recorded documents may be recorded in the office of register of deeds for the county where the real property that is the subject of the affidavit is located:  (a) Errors and omissions relating to the proper place of recording.  (b) Scrivener's errors and scrivener's omissions.  (2) All of the following apply to an affidavit under subsection (1):  (a) The affidavit shall be made by a person who has knowledge of the relevant facts and is competent to testify concerning those facts in open court and shall meet the requirements of section 1c.  (b) The affidavit does not alter the substantive rights of any party unless it is executed by that party.  (3) The county register of deeds shall index all names recited within an affidavit recorded under subsection (1).  (4) Subsection (1) does not prohibit the recording of a corrected version of the previously recorded document indicating the corrective changes and making reference to the previously recorded document by liber and page number or by another unique identifying number. History: Add. 2012, Act 336, Imd. Eff. Oct. 16, 2012
MI Comp L § 565.452 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 123 of 1915 - Recording Affidavits Affecting Real Property (565.451 - 565.453)|Section 565.452 - Affidavit; Register Duties; Fee; Social Security Number.

565.452 Affidavit; register duties; fee; social security number.Sec. 2.  (1) The register of deeds of the county where an affidavit described in this act is offered for record shall receive and record it in the manner that deeds are recorded. The register of deeds shall collect the same fee for recording the affidavit as is provided by law for recording deeds.  (2) Unless state or federal law, rule, regulation, or court order or rule requires that all or more than 4 sequential digits of the social security number appear in the affidavit, a register of deeds shall not receive an affidavit for recording unless the first 5 digits of any social security number appearing in or on the affidavit are obscured or removed. History: 1915, Act 123, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915 ;-- CL 1915, 11737 ;-- CL 1929, 13365 ;-- CL 1948, 565.452 ;-- Am. 1965, Act 178, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 54, Imd. Eff. Sept. 6, 2007
MI Comp L § 565.453 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 123 of 1915 - Recording Affidavits Affecting Real Property (565.451 - 565.453)|Section 565.453 - Affidavit; Use as Evidence.

565.453 Affidavit; use as evidence. Sec. 3.  The affidavit, whether recorded before or after the passage of this act, may be received in evidence in any civil cause, in any court of this state and by any board or officer of the state in any suit or proceeding affecting the real estate and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts and circumstances therein contained.  History: 1915, Act 123, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915 ;-- CL 1915, 11738 ;-- CL 1929, 13366 ;-- CL 1948, 565.453 ;-- Am. 1965, Act 178, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965
MI Comp L § 565.491 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 20 of 1867 - Recording of Deeds, Mortgages, and Instruments of Record (565.491 - 565.492)|Section 565.491 - Instruments Recordation; Reproductions; Delivery; Social Security Number.

565.491 Instruments recordation; reproductions; delivery; social security number.Sec. 1.  (1) A register of deeds, upon the payment of the proper fee, shall record or cause to be recorded, at length, upon the pages of the proper record books in his or her office reproductions pursuant to the records reproduction act, 1992 PA 116, MCL 24.401 to 24.406, of all deeds, mortgages, maps, and instruments or writings authorized by law to be recorded in his or her office, and left with him or her for that purpose. If the register of deeds receives an instrument to be recorded, he or she shall not deliver it to the parties, or either of them, or permit the instrument to go out of his or her office before it is duly entered at large upon the record.  (2) Unless state or federal law, rule, regulation, or court order or rule requires that all or more than 4 sequential digits of the social security number appear in the instrument, beginning on 1 of the following dates a register of deeds shall not receive an instrument or reproduction of an instrument for recording unless the first 5 digits of any social security number appearing in or on the instrument or reproduction are obscured or removed:  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection.  (b) For an instrument or reproduction presented to the register of deeds by the department of treasury, April 1, 2008. History: 1867, Act 20, Eff. June 27, 1867 ;-- CL 1871, 4254 ;-- How. 5677 ;-- CL 1897, 8982 ;-- Am. 1911, Act 122, Eff. Aug. 1, 1911 ;-- CL 1915, 11714 ;-- Am. 1921, Act 379, Eff. Aug. 18, 1921 ;-- CL 1929, 13372 ;-- CL 1948, 565.491 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 211, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 53, Imd. Eff. Sept. 6, 2007
MI Comp L § 565.492 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 20 of 1867 - Recording of Deeds, Mortgages, and Instruments of Record (565.491 - 565.492)|Section 565.492 - Conveyance Made Under Court Order; Indexing, Record as Evidence.

565.492 Conveyance made under court order; indexing, record as evidence. 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 the testators, wards or persons who owned the estate, and from whom it passes when the same appear by such deed, and also the name of such executor, administrator, guardian, commissioner, sheriff, marshal, or other person executing the same; and when a decree or order for the partition of land, or the commissioner return thereof, is so left for record, the register shall enter in the indexes the names of all the persons whose estates plainly appear to be affected thereby. And all such deeds, the record, or a certified copy of such record, shall be in all courts and places prima facie evidence of the regularity of all the proceedings required by law anterior to such deeds, and of the authority of the grantor therein named to execute such deed or deeds. History: 1867, Act 20, Eff. June 27, 1867 ;-- CL 1871, 4255 ;-- How. 5678 ;-- CL 1897, 8983 ;-- CL 1915, 11715 ;-- CL 1929, 13373 ;-- CL 1948, 565.492
MI Comp L § 565.501 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 79 of 1841 - General Index of Records (565.501 - 565.502)|Section 565.501 - General Index of Records; Duties and Compensation of Register.

565.501 General index of records; duties and compensation of register. 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 their offices, used for the purpose of recording deeds, mortgages and other instruments, in order that the records containing the title of lands, may the more easily be preserved, and a search of said records, to ascertain such title, facilitated; and the said registers shall receive for their compensation such sum as the county commissioners may deem just and right. History: 1841, Act 79, Eff. May 13, 1841 ;-- CL 1857, 2770 ;-- CL 1871, 4267 ;-- How. 5722 ;-- CL 1897, 9058 ;-- CL 1915, 11789 ;-- CL 1929, 13374 ;-- CL 1948, 565.501 Compiler's Notes: The office of county commissioners was abolished and its powers and duties transferred to the county boards of supervisors by Act 19 of 1842.
MI Comp L § 565.502 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 79 of 1841 - General Index of Records (565.501 - 565.502)|Section 565.502 - General Index of Records; Compensation of Register for Indexing Instruments.

565.502 General index of records; compensation of register for indexing instruments. 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 already furnished, and the registers are hereby required without charge, to index all such deeds, mortgages, and other instruments in said general index. History: 1841, Act 79, Eff. May 13, 1841 ;-- CL 1857, 2771 ;-- CL 1871, 4268 ;-- How. 5723 ;-- CL 1897, 9059 ;-- CL 1915, 11790 ;-- CL 1929, 13375 ;-- CL 1948, 565.502
MI Comp L § 565.531 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 158 of 1887 - Failure to Keep Up Required Indexes (565.531 - 565.531)|Section 565.531 - Index; Failure to Keep Up; Forfeiture.

565.531 Index; failure to keep up; forfeiture. Sec. 1.  That every register of deeds who shall neglect or refuse to keep up such indexes as are required by law shall forfeit the sum of 10 dollars for each and every such neglect or refusal, which may be recovered in an action of debt before any court of competent jurisdiction. History: 1887, Act 158, Eff. Sept. 28, 1887 ;-- How. 5723a ;-- CL 1897, 9060 ;-- CL 1915, 11791 ;-- CL 1929, 13376 ;-- CL 1948, 565.531
MI Comp L § 565.581 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 25 of 1836 - Records of Deeds and Other Conveyances (565.581 - 565.584)|Section 565.581 - County Attached to Another for Judicial Purposes; Record of Instruments; Copying, Copy as Evidence; Social Security Number; Removal; "Books" Defined.

565.581 County attached to another for judicial purposes; record of instruments; copying, copy as evidence; social security number; removal; "books" defined.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 those books a complete copy of all deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, or other instruments relating to the title of land belonging to the board's county and on record in the county to which it is attached; and it is the duty of that register or deputy under his or her oath of office to certify each and every copy so taken to be a true copy of the original record; and each copy so certified shall be received as evidence in all courts in this state, in the same manner and for the same purposes as the original record would be received.  (2) Unless state or federal law, rule, regulation, or court order or rule requires that the social security number appear in the instrument or copies of the instrument, if a register of deeds provides a person a copy of an instrument from a book of records that contains a social security number, the register of deeds may obscure or remove all or at least the first 5 digits of the social security number from the copy before providing it.  (3) An individual whose social security number is contained in 1 or more instruments in a county's books of record may request that the register of deeds of that county obscure or remove all or at least the first 5 digits of his or her social security number from copies made of those instruments by recording an affidavit identifying the liber and page of those instruments.  (4) As used in this act, "books" includes a computerized recording system for instruments relating to the title of land. History: 1836, Act 25, Imd. Eff. Mar. 24, 1836 ;-- CL 1857, 2766 ;-- CL 1871, 4259 ;-- How. 5694 ;-- CL 1897, 9000 ;-- CL 1915, 11732 ;-- CL 1929, 13378 ;-- CL 1948, 565.581 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 55, Imd. Eff. Sept. 12, 2007
MI Comp L § 565.582 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 25 of 1836 - Records of Deeds and Other Conveyances (565.581 - 565.584)|Section 565.582 - Application of Preceding Section.

565.582 Application of preceding section. 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. History: 1836, Act 25, Imd. Eff. Mar. 24, 1836 ;-- CL 1857, 2767 ;-- CL 1871, 4260 ;-- How. 5695 ;-- CL 1897, 9001 ;-- CL 1915, 11733 ;-- CL 1929, 13379 ;-- CL 1948, 565.582
MI Comp L § 565.583 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 25 of 1836 - Records of Deeds and Other Conveyances (565.581 - 565.584)|Section 565.583 - Register; Duties, Fees.

565.583 Register; duties, fees. 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 deeds, to be paid out of the county treasury; and the register to whom application may be made as aforesaid is hereby authorized and directed to permit the register first mentioned in this section to have the use of the books and records in his office for the purpose aforesaid. History: 1836, Act 25, Imd. Eff. Mar. 24, 1836 ;-- CL 1857, 2768 ;-- CL 1871, 4261 ;-- How. 5696 ;-- CL 1897, 9002 ;-- CL 1915, 11734 ;-- CL 1929, 13380 ;-- CL 1948, 565.583
MI Comp L § 565.584 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 25 of 1836 - Records of Deeds and Other Conveyances (565.581 - 565.584)|Section 565.584 - Register; Additional Compensation.

565.584 Register; additional compensation. 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. History: 1836, Act 25, Imd. Eff. Mar. 24, 1836 ;-- CL 1857, 2769 ;-- CL 1871, 4262 ;-- How. 5697 ;-- CL 1897, 9003 ;-- CL 1915, 11735 ;-- CL 1929, 13381 ;-- CL 1948, 565.584
MI Comp L § 565.591 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 177 of 1879 - Transcribing Records of Deeds, Mortgages, and Other Instruments (565.591 - 565.591)|Section 565.591 - Failure or Mistake in Copying Records for New County; Copy of Original; Right to Obtain, Recording.

565.591 Failure or mistake in copying records for new county; copy of original; right to obtain, recording. Sec. 1.  That when a new county has been, or shall be organized, in whole or in part, from an organized county, or from territory attached to such organized county for judicial purposes, and the supervisors of such new county have or shall have neglected to cause copies or transcripts of the records of deeds, mortgages or other instruments relating to real estate in such new county, to be made as provided by law; or if from any cause the same has not, or shall not have been done; or in case there are or shall be informalities, irregularities or mistakes in the copying, transcribing or certifying of such records, then in either such case, any person may procure from the register of deeds of the county in which such original deed, mortgage or other instrument had been recorded, a copy, duly certified by such register, of the original record of any deed, mortgage or other instrument relative to or affecting the title of land, in which such person may be interested, and situated in such new county, and cause such certified copy to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county. When any such certified copy shall be presented to the register of deeds of any county in this state, it shall be the duty of such register to record the same in the same manner and with like effect as original instruments or papers entitled to record in his office, and when so recorded, such record shall have the same effect in all respects as original records. History: 1879, Act 177, Eff. Aug. 30, 1879 ;-- How. 5698 ;-- CL 1897, 9004 ;-- CL 1915, 11739 ;-- CL 1929, 13382 ;-- CL 1948, 565.591
MI Comp L § 565.601 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 21 of 1861 - Confirmation of Certain Deeds and Instruments (565.601 - 565.604)|Section 565.601 - Deed Executed According to Law of Place of Execution; Validity.

565.601 Deed executed according to law of place of execution; validity. 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 take the acknowledgment of deeds by the laws of the place where executed, or of the laws of the territory or state of Michigan, in force at the date of such acknowledgment, shall be deemed between the parties thereto, and all persons claiming under or through them, as valid and effectual to convey the legal estate of the premises therein described, as if the said deed had been in all respects legally executed. History: 1861, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Feb. 2, 1861 ;-- CL 1871, 4250 ;-- How. 5724 ;-- CL 1897, 9048 ;-- CL 1915, 11781 ;-- CL 1929, 13383 ;-- CL 1948, 565.601
MI Comp L § 565.602 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 21 of 1861 - Confirmation of Certain Deeds and Instruments (565.601 - 565.604)|Section 565.602 - Married Woman's Joint Deed With Husband; Validity.

565.602 Married woman's joint deed with husband; validity.  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 the office of the register of deeds of the proper county, shall be taken and deemed as between the parties thereto, and all persons claiming under or through them as valid and effectual to convey the legal title of the premises therein described, as if the same had been executed and acknowledged by the husband and wife in person. History: 1861, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Feb. 2, 1861 ;-- CL 1871, 4251 ;-- How. 5725 ;-- CL 1897, 9049 ;-- CL 1915, 11782 ;-- CL 1929, 13384 ;-- CL 1948, 565.602
MI Comp L § 565.603 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 21 of 1861 - Confirmation of Certain Deeds and Instruments (565.601 - 565.604)|Section 565.603 - Certificate of Acknowledgment; Effect of Imperfection.

565.603 Certificate of acknowledgment; effect of imperfection.  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 legally authorized to take such acknowledgment, and that the grantor or grantors named in such deed were personally known to him, and that he or they personally appeared before him and acknowledged such deed to be his or their free act, and if such deed was executed out of this state, it shall be sufficient if the certificate under the seal of office of the clerk or other proper certifying officer of the court of record of the county or district within which such acknowledgment was taken, in cases where any such certificate was required, sufficiently shows that the person before whom such acknowledgment was taken, was at the date thereof such officer as he is therein represented to be. And whenever such deed has been recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county, such record shall be effectual for all purposes of a legal record, and the record of such deed or a transcript thereof may be given in evidence as in other cases: Provided, That nothing in this section, or in the preceding 2 sections contained, shall impair the rights of any person under a purchase heretofore made in good faith, and on valuable consideration. History: 1861, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Feb. 2, 1861 ;-- CL 1871, 4252 ;-- How. 5726 ;-- CL 1897, 9050 ;-- CL 1915, 11783 ;-- CL 1929, 13385 ;-- CL 1948, 565.603
MI Comp L § 565.604 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 565 - Conveyances of Real Property|Act 21 of 1861 - Confirmation of Certain Deeds and Instruments (565.601 - 565.604)|Section 565.604 - Land Conveyances; Statutory Requirements Defect; Effect.

565.604 Land conveyances; statutory requirements defect; effect. 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, signing, attestation, acknowledgment, or certificate of acknowledgment thereof; nor shall any deed or conveyance, heretofore or hereafter to be made, designed and intended to operate as a conveyance to any religious, fraternal, scientific or benevolent society, or corporation, be wholly void by reason of any mistake in the name or description of the grantee, nor because of any failure of such society or corporation to comply with any statutory provisions concerning the organization of such society or corporation: Provided, Such society or corporation shall hereafter comply with the provisions of the statute touching the organization or incorporation of such societies; but the same, when not otherwise effectual to the purposes intended, may be allowed to operate as an agreement for a proper and lawful conveyance of the premises in question, and may be enforced specifically by suit in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction, subject to the rights of subsequent purchasers in good faith and for a valuable consideration; and when any such defective instrument has been or shall hereafter be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such lands are situate, such record shall hereafter operate as legal notice of all the rights secured by such instrument. History: 1861, Act 21, Imd. Eff. Feb. 2, 1861 ;-- CL 1871, 4253 ;-- Am. 1873, Act 174, Imd. Eff. Apr. 29, 1873 ;-- How. 5727 ;-- CL 1897, 9051 ;-- CL 1915, 11784 ;-- CL 1929, 13386 ;-- Am. 1933, Act 56, Imd. Eff. Apr. 14, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 565.604