Terms Used In Michigan Laws 444.10

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
   No warehouseman shall issue any receipt or voucher for any personal property to any person, persons or corporation as security for any money loaned or for other indebtedness or indemnity, unless such property so receipted for shall be, at the time of issuing such receipt or voucher, the property, without encumbrance, of said warehouseman, and shall be actually in store and under the control of said warehouseman at the time of giving such receipt or voucher, and if such property be encumbered by prior lien, then the character, extent and amount of that lien shall be fully set forth and explained in the receipt.