Terms Used In Michigan Laws 3.906

  • 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
   There are reserved over these lands, described in section 1, to which legislative jurisdiction may be ceded to the United States pursuant to this act, the state‘s entire legislative jurisdiction with respect to taxation and that of each state agency, political subdivision and district of the state; the state’s entire legislative jurisdiction with respect to marriage, divorce, annulment, adoption, commitment of the mentally incompetent, and descent and distribution of property; concurrent or separate power to enforce the criminal law; and the power to execute any process, civil or criminal, issued under authority of the state. A person residing on these lands described in section 1 shall not be deprived of any civil or political rights, including the right of suffrage, by reason of the cession of jurisdiction to the United States.