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)
Section 565.48 - Deed by surviving joint tenant of lands; recording; certified copy of death.

Sec. 48.

No deed or other instrument in writing, purporting to convey an interest in land by the survivor or survivors under a deed to joint tenants or tenants by the entirety shall be recorded by the register of deeds of any county, unless, for each joint tenant or tenant by the entirety who is therein indicated to be deceased, a certified copy of the death certificate or other proof of death which is permitted by the laws of this state to be received for record by said register, is shown to have been recorded in said register's office by liber and page reference or shall accompany such deed for record.

History: Add. 1947, Act 20, Eff. Oct. 11, 1947 ;-- CL 1948, 565.48