2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 554 - REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Act 280 of 1915 - GIFTS, GRANTS, BEQUESTS, AND DEVISES (554.351 - 554.353)

GIFTS, GRANTS, BEQUESTS, AND DEVISES
Act 280 of 1915
AN ACT to establish the validity and to provide for the administration and control of gifts, grants, bequests and devises to religious, educational, charitable or benevolent uses, or for cemeteries, whether in trust or otherwise, which would be otherwise invalid by reason of indefiniteness or uncertainty of the object of such trust or of the persons designated as the beneficiaries thereunder in the instrument creating the same or by reason of contravening any statute or rule against perpetuities; and regulating the same; to establish the validity of all gifts, grants, devises or bequests made in pursuance of Act 122 of the Public Acts of 1907 and of the acts amendatory thereof, and all proceedings and acts performed in accordance therewith; and repealing Act 122 of the Public Acts of 1907, and all amendments thereto.

History: 1915, Act 280, Eff. Aug. 24, 1915

• Section 554.351 - Gift or grant for certain purposes; effect of indefiniteness, vesting of title, trustee appointment.
• Section 554.352 - Gift or grant for certain purposes; jurisdiction of court; trust construction; prosecutor duties.
• Section 554.353 - Validation clause.