2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 565 - CONVEYANCES OF REAL PROPERTY
R.S. of 1846 - Revised Statutes of 1846 (565.1 - 565.49)
R-S-1846-565-1-65 - CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER 65. OF ALIENATION BY DEED, AND THE PROOF AND RECORDING OF CONVEYANCES, AND THE CANCELING OF MORTGAGES. (565.1...565.49)

Revised Statutes of 1846 (EXCERPT)
R.S. of 1846 Chapter 65
CHAPTER 65. OF ALIENATION BY DEED, AND THE PROOF AND RECORDING OF CONVEYANCES, AND THE CANCELING OF MORTGAGES.

• Section 565.1 - Conveyance of land made by deed.
• Section 565.3 - Quit claim deed; estate passed.
• Section 565.4 - Conveyance of greater estate than possessed; effect.
• Section 565.5 - Covenants; implication in conveyance.
• Section 565.6 - Covenants; implication in mortgage.
• Section 565.7 - Conveyance of land adversely possessed; validity.
• Section 565.8 - Deeds; execution; witnesses; acknowledgment; endorsement; validity and legality of certain acknowledgments and recordations of deeds; recorded deed lacking 1 or more witnesses.
• Section 565.9 - Execution of deed in another state; governing law, acknowledgment.
• Section 565.10 - Execution of deed in another state; seal of officer, certificate; record of prior deeds as evidence.
• Section 565.11 - Execution of deed in foreign country; governing law; acknowledgment; certificate, seal; validation of certain deeds; record as evidence.
• Section 565.13 - Conveyance by nonresident married person; effect; procedure.
• Section 565.14 - Deed; failure to acknowledge; proof by witness of execution.
• Section 565.15 - Deed; failure to acknowledge; proof of handwriting where witnesses are unobtainable.
• Section 565.16 - Deed; refusal to acknowledge; application to circuit court; summons to grantor.
• Section 565.17 - Deed; proof of execution; certificate of court.
• Section 565.18 - Deed; refusal to acknowledge; proof of execution by proving handwriting.
• Section 565.19 - Subscribing witnesses; subpoenas for attendance.
• Section 565.20 - Subscribing witnesses; refusal to appear or testify; civil liability; contempt; penalty.
• Section 565.21 - Unacknowledged deed; filing of copy by person interested; effect.
• Section 565.22 - Unacknowledged deed; effect of filing; continuation.
• Section 565.23 - Certificate of acknowledgment or proof of execution; effect on right to have deed recorded.
• Section 565.24 - Delivery of instrument to register of deeds; affixing date, hour, and minute; accessibility; destruction of information created or maintained under subsection (2); fee; indexing of instrument; applicability of subsections (2) to (4); "general index date" defined; civil immunity.
• Section 565.24a - Assignment of liber and page or unique identifying number; satisfaction of recording requirements; delivery of instrument rejected on prior occasion.
• Section 565.25 - Perfecting recording; conditions; exemptions; liability for certain conduct; penalties.
• Section 565.26 - Repealed. 2008, Act 358, Imd. Eff. Dec. 23, 2008.
• Section 565.27 - Recorded instruments; contents.
• Section 565.28 - General index; contents; computerized index; securing computerized and primary indexes.
• Section 565.29 - Unrecorded conveyance; validity against subsequent purchaser; relation of quit claim deed to good faith.
• Section 565.30 - Deeds of church pews and slips; recording.
• Section 565.32 - Unrecorded deed of defeasance; validity against person without notice.
• Section 565.33 - Assignment of mortgage; effect of recording.
• Section 565.34 - Purchaser; definition.
• Section 565.35 - Conveyance; definition.
• Section 565.36 - Power of attorney to convey lands; inapplicability of preceding section; executory land contract; recording; recording as evidence.
• Section 565.37 - Power of attorney to convey lands; recording of revocation.
• Section 565.38 - New county; transcription of instruments; effect, compensation of register.
• Section 565.39 - Device used as seal; effect; application to official seals.
• Section 565.40 - Prior legal conveyances; effect as evidence, recording; conveyance under unacknowledged contract, record as evidence.
• Section 565.41 - Discharge of mortgage; payment of filing fee by mortgagee; date of discharge.
• Section 565.42 - Discharge of mortgage; certificate of mortgagee; circuit court, or register in chancery.
• Section 565.43 - Discharge of mortgage; recording of certificate; reproduced documents; reference to liber and page containing certificate.
• Section 565.44 - Discharge of mortgage; refusal; civil liability; penalty; time periods.
• Section 565.46 - Proof and acknowledgment of deeds; application of law to instruments affecting lands.
• Section 565.47 - Recording by register of deeds; acknowledgment required.
• Section 565.48 - Deed by surviving joint tenant of lands; recording; certified copy of death.
• Section 565.49 - Conveyances; same person or persons among grantors and grantees; joint tenancy, tenancy by entireties.