Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 700 > Act 386 of 1998 > Article IV - Foreign Personal Representatives and Ancillary Administration

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Application: means a written request to the probate register for an order of informal probate or informal appointment under part 3 of article III. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Copyright laws: means those laws specified pursuant to title 17 of the United States Code, 17 U. See Michigan Laws 445.2102
• Copyright owner: means the owner of a copyright of a musical work recognized and enforceable under the copyright laws. See Michigan Laws 445.2102
• 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.
• Court: means the probate court or, when applicable, the family division of circuit court. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Distributee: means a person that receives a decedent's property from the decedent's personal representative or trust property from the trustee other than as a creditor or purchaser. See Michigan Laws 700.1103
• Distribution: means the amount of money a county receives under section 4 and 5. See Michigan Laws 141.472
• Estate: includes the property of the decedent, trust, or other person whose affairs are subject to this act as the property is originally constituted and as it exists throughout administration. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Foreign personal representative: means a personal representative appointed by another jurisdiction. See Michigan Laws 700.1104
• Fund: means the health and safety fund created in section 3. See Michigan Laws 141.472
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• 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
• Jail facility: means a jail, holding cell, holding center, or lockup as those terms are defined in section 62 of Act No. See Michigan Laws 141.472
• 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.
• Juvenile facility: means a county facility or an institution operated as an agency of the county or the juvenile division of the probate court for the housing or detention of juveniles. See Michigan Laws 141.472
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Local administration: means administration by a personal representative appointed in this state under an appointment proceeding described in article III. See Michigan Laws 700.4101
• Local health department: means that term as defined in section 1105 of the public health code, Act No. See Michigan Laws 141.472
• Local personal representative: includes a personal representative appointed in this state under an appointment proceeding described in article III and excludes a foreign personal representative who acquires the power of a local personal representative under section 4203. See Michigan Laws 700.4101
• Money: means legal tender or a note, draft, certificate of deposit, stock, bond, check, or credit card. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Nonresident decedent: means a decedent who was domiciled in another jurisdiction at the time of the decedent's death. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Performing rights society: means an association, corporation, or other entity that licenses the nondramatic public performance, broadcast, or transmittal of musical works on behalf of copyright owners including, but not limited to, the American society of composers, authors, and publishers; broadcast music, inc. See Michigan Laws 445.2102
• Person: means an individual or an organization. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal representative: includes , but is not limited to, an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, and special personal representative, and any other person, other than a trustee of a trust subject to article VII, who performs substantially the same function under the law governing that person's status. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Petition: means a written request to the court for an order after notice. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Probate: Proving a will
• Proceeding: includes an application and a petition, and may be an action at law or a suit in equity. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, and includes both real and personal property or an interest in real or personal property. See Michigan Laws 700.1106
• Proprietor: means the owner of a retail establishment, restaurant, inn, bar, tavern, sports or entertainment facility, not-for-profit organization, or any other place of business or professional office located in this state in which the public may assemble and in which musical works are publicly and nondramatically performed, broadcast, or transmitted for the enjoyment of the members of the public assembled in that place. See Michigan Laws 445.2102
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Resident creditor: means a person domiciled or doing business in this state that is, or could be, a claimant against a nonresident decedent's estate. See Michigan Laws 700.4101
• Royalties: means the fees payable by a proprietor to a performing rights society for the nondramatic public performance, broadcast, or transmittal of musical works. See Michigan Laws 445.2102
• Security: includes , but is not limited to, a note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease, collateral trust certificate, transferable share, voting trust certificate, or interest in a regulated investment company or other entity generally referred to as a mutual fund or, in general, an interest or instrument commonly known as a security, or a certificate of interest or participation for, a temporary or interim certificate, receipt, or certificate of deposit for, or any warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in this subdivision. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 700.1107
• 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
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o