2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 565 - CONVEYANCES OF REAL PROPERTY
Act 123 of 1915 - RECORDING AFFIDAVITS AFFECTING REAL PROPERTY (565.451 - 565.453)
Section 565.451a - Affidavit stating facts relating to matters affecting realty; recording.

Sec. 1a.

An affidavit stating facts relating to any of the following matters which may affect the title to real property in this state made by any person having knowledge of the facts or by any person competent to testify concerning such facts in open court, may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the real property is situated:

(a) Birth, age, sex, marital status, death, name, residence, identity, capacity, relationship, family history, heirship, homestead status and service in the armed forces of parties named in deeds, wills, mortgages and other instruments affecting real property;

(b) Knowledge of the happening of any condition or event which may terminate an estate or interest in real property;

(c) Knowledge of surveyors duly registered under the laws of this state with respect to the existence and location of monuments and physical boundaries, such as fences, streams, roads and rights of way of real property;

(d) Knowledge of such registered surveyors reconciling conflicting and ambiguous descriptions in conveyances with descriptions in a regular chain of title;

(e) Knowledge of facts incident to possession or the actual, open, notorious and adverse possession of real property; or

(f) Knowledge of the purchaser, or in the case of a corporation, of its president, vice president, secretary or other duly authorized representative acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, of real property sold upon foreclosure or conveyed in lieu of foreclosure of a trust mortgage or deed of trust securing an issue of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, or of any mortgage, land contract or other security instrument held by a fiduciary or other representative, as to the authority of such purchaser to purchase the real property and as to the terms and conditions upon which the real property is to be held and disposed of.

History: Add. 1965, Act 178, Imd. Eff. July 15, 1965