Terms Used In Michigan Laws 450.701

  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
   Every person, whether a resident or nonresident of this state, by the acceptance of election, appointment or employment as a director, manager, trustee or other officer of any corporation organized under the laws of the state of Michigan, or by continuance as such director, manager, trustee or other officer for a period of 30 days following approval of this act, shall be held, by such acceptance or continuance, to have appointed the resident agent of such corporation as his true and lawful attorney in fact upon whom service of process may be made while such person is a director, manager, trustee or other officer and after he has ceased to be such a director, manager, trustee or other officer, as long as such cause of action is not barred by the statute of limitations, in any action commenced in any court of general jurisdiction in the state of Michigan, arising out of or founded upon any action of such a domestic corporation or of such a person as a director, manager, trustee or other officer of such a domestic corporation.