Terms Used In Michigan Laws 388.717

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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
   The state board of education, upon the finding that an emergency warrants immediate reorganization of a school district, shall attach the district by annexation or division to such other district or districts as will provide the most equitable educational opportunity for all of the students of the reorganized district and shall determine the effective date of attachment. Action of the state board of education shall be final. For the 4 fiscal years immediately subsequent to the annexation, the receiving district may elect to compute and receive state aid for that portion of the district annexed based upon the per pupil state equalized valuation of the annexed portion.