Michigan Laws 565.40 – Prior legal conveyances; effect as evidence, recording; conveyance under unacknowledged contract, record as evidence
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 565.40
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- conveyance: as used in this chapter , shall be construed to embrace every instrument in writing, by which any estate or interest in real estate is created, aliened, mortgaged or assigned; or by which the title to any real estate may be affected in law or equity, except wills, leases for a term not exceeding 3 years, and executory contracts for the sale or purchase of lands. See Michigan Laws 565.35
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
- 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
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
All conveyances of real estate heretofore made and acknowledged or proved, in accordance with the laws of this state, in force at the time of such making and acknowledgment or proof, shall have the same force as evidence, and be recorded in the same manner, and with the like effect, as conveyances executed and acknowledged in pursuance of the provisions of this chapter. And where any conveyance, with an unacknowledged contract in writing attached, annexed or appended thereto, and referred to in the body of such conveyance as being thereto attached, appended or annexed, has been heretofore recorded, or that may be hereafter recorded; the record, or a transcript of the record of such conveyance and contract, certified by the register in whose office the same may have been recorded, may be read in evidence in any court within this state without further proof thereof; but the effect of such evidence may be rebutted by other competent testimony.