Section 554.46 - Land conveyance; nominal conditions; effect of failure to perform. - Michigan Statutes

Revised Statutes of 1846 (EXCERPT)
Chapter 62. Of The Nature And Qualities Of Estates In Real And Personal Property, And The Alienation Thereof.

554.46 Land conveyance; nominal conditions; effect of failure to perform.

Sec. 46.

When any conditions annexed to a grant or conveyance of lands are merely nominal and evince no intention of actual and substantial benefit to the party to whom or in whose favor they are to be performed, they may be wholly disregarded, and a failure to perform the same shall in no case operate as a forfeiture of the lands conveyed subject thereto.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 62 ;-- CL 1857, 2630 ;-- CL 1871, 4113 ;-- How. 5562 ;-- CL 1897, 8828 ;-- CL 1915, 11564 ;-- CL 1929, 12966 ;-- CL 1948, 554.46