2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 565 - CONVEYANCES OF REAL PROPERTY
Act 200 of 1945 - MARKETABLE RECORD TITLE (565.101 - 565.109)
Section 565.102 - Unbroken chain of title to interest in land; conditions.

MARKETABLE RECORD TITLE (EXCERPT)
Act 200 of 1945

565.102 Unbroken chain of title to interest in land; conditions.

Sec. 2.

A person is considered to have an unbroken chain of title to an interest in land as provided in section 1 when the official public records disclose either of the following:

(a) A conveyance or other title transaction not less than 20 years in the past for mineral interests and 40 years for other interests, which conveyance or other title transaction purports to create the interest in that person, with nothing appearing of record purporting to divest that person of the purported interest.

(b) A conveyance or other title transaction not less than 20 years in the past for mineral interests and 40 years for other interests, which conveyance or other title transaction purports to create the interest in some other person and other conveyances or title transactions of record by which the purported interest has become vested in the person first referred to in this section, with nothing appearing of record purporting to divest the person first referred to in this section of the purported interest.


History: 1945, Act 200, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945 ;-- CL 1948, 565.102 ;-- Am. 1997, Act 154, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1997

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