Section 322.551 - New deeds; issuance by state. - Michigan Statutes

NEW DEEDS TO PURCHASERS OF STATE LANDS (EXCERPT)
Act 61 of 1935

322.551 New deeds; issuance by state.

Sec. 1.

Any person or the heirs, executors, administrators or assigns of any person who has made a good faith purchase of land from the state of Michigan and received from the state a conveyance purporting to pass absolute title to said land, shall be entitled to a second conveyance by the state if it shall be found that, at the time of the original conveyance, title to the land was vested in the United States and that the title has been subsequently acquired by the state from the United States. The director of conservation is hereby authorized to issue a quit claim deed in such case to any person entitled thereto, providing said person shall submit to the attorney general evidence of his ownership in said land, and that the attorney general shall certify to the director of conservation that said person is entitled to have a good and sufficient title to said land, based upon the original conveyance from the state.

History: 1935, Act 61, Imd. Eff. May 17, 1935 ;-- CL 1948, 322.551