Terms Used In Michigan Laws 600.4041

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
  (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
   Any attachment on realty or any right or interest therein shall be discharged upon the record thereof by the register of deeds whenever there shall be presented to him a certificate executed by the sheriff, and approved by the plaintiff, his personal representatives or assigns, or his attorney of record in said cause, duly acknowledged; specifying that the attachment has been removed or otherwise satisfied or discharged; or upon the presentation to the register of deeds of the certificate of the circuit court for the county, signed by the sheriff and the clerk of the court and seal thereof, certifying that it has been made to appear to the court that the attachment has been duly removed or otherwise settled.