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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 450.1569

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
    (1) For purposes of section 561 to 567, “corporation” includes all constituent corporations absorbed in a consolidation or merger, any corporation converted into another business organization, and the resulting or surviving corporation or other business organization, so that a person that is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the constituent corporation or is or was serving at the request of the constituent corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, or other business organization in the same position under this section with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation or other business organization as if that person had served the resulting or surviving corporation or other business organization in the same capacity.
    (2) As used in this section, “business organization” means that term as defined in section 736(1).