Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 2 > Act 165 of 1972 - Pledge to State Flag

• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the director of the department of natural resources or his or her designee to whom the director delegates a power or duty by written instrument. See Michigan Laws 324.301
• Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.3101
• Department: means the department of environmental quality. See Michigan Laws 324.5201
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• grantee: may be construed as including every person to whom any such interest or estate passes in like manner. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Nongame fish: includes all kinds of fish except game fish. See Michigan Laws 324.48701
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental entity, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 324.301
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
• Township board: means the township board of a township constituted as provided in section 70. See Michigan Laws 41.1b
• Treasurer: means the treasurer of a township elected under chapter XVI of Act No. See Michigan Laws 41.1b
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o