Terms Used In Michigan Laws 442.212

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Goods: means all goods, wares, merchandise and other personal property, excepting, choses in action and money. See Michigan Laws 442.211
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Person: includes a person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or 2 or more persons having a joint or common interest. See Michigan Laws 442.211
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
   No person shall advertise, represent or hold out that any sale of goods is an insurance, bankruptcy, mortgage, insolvent, assignee’s, executor‘s, administrator’s, receiver’s, trustee‘s, removal or sale, going out of business or sale of goods damaged by fire, smoke, water or otherwise, unless he first obtains a license to conduct the sale from the clerk of the city, village or township in which he proposes to conduct a sale. This act shall not apply to any sales by a person regularly engaged in insurance or salvage sale of goods, or the sale of goods which have been damaged by fire, smoke, water or otherwise, who acquired the goods for the account of others as a result of fire or other casualty.