Section 322.381 - Certificates of correction; contents, issuance, seal, record. - Michigan Statutes

CERTIFICATES OF CORRECTION (EXCERPT)
Act 19 of 1917

322.381 Certificates of correction; contents, issuance, seal, record.

Sec. 1.

Whenever it shall appear that a deed has been executed and issued by the public domain commission, purporting to convey title to lands in which the state of Michigan held no interest, and such deed has been recorded in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which such lands are located, and when in the attempt to correct such erroneous sale and transfer a deed has been executed by the grantee of the state to the state of Michigan, such deed shall be placed on record in the office of such register of deeds, by the public domain commission, and at the same time the public domain commission shall execute a certificate wherein it shall be stated that the state of Michigan has and claims no title in or to the lands described in such deed to the state of Michigan, and that such certificate is issued for the express purpose of removing any cloud upon the title in the lands described in such deed by reason of the deed issued by the state of Michigan in the first place, or by the deed so received from the grantee. Such certificate shall be issued under the seal of the public domain commission and shall be placed on record by such register of deeds, who shall at the same time enter in the record of deeds herein referred to a citation to the record of such certificate of correction.

History: 1917, Act 19, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917 ;-- CL 1929, 5929 ;-- CL 1948, 322.381
Compiler's Notes: The public domain commission, referred to in this section, was abolished and the powers and duties thereof transferred to the department of conservation by MCL 299.2. The department of conservation was subsequently transferred to the department of natural resources by MCL 16.352.