Terms Used In Michigan Laws 3.901

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
   The department of natural resources is authorized to convey by quitclaim deed or deeds the title to lands as is vested in the state and under the jurisdiction of the department of natural resources and to cede the offshore water area, without any monetary consideration, for and in behalf of the state, to the United States, which lie within the boundaries of the lakeshore zone and the parkway locations of the Sleeping Bear dunes national lakeshore as depicted on the map identified as “proposed Sleeping Bear dunes national lakeshore, United States department of the interior, national park service, boundary map NL-SBD-91,000, May, 1969”, to be used by the United States department of the interior. The commission of natural resources shall approve the descriptions and total acreage of land to be conveyed and water area to be ceded, as well as the area to be excepted as provided in subdivision (b) of section 2 of the Public Laws 91-479.