Terms Used In Michigan Laws 457.267

  • 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
   Any grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star which has been heretofore incorporated under any other act of this state may be reincorporated under the provisions of this act upon a proper surrender to the source from which it received them, of all the rights, powers, privileges, property, money, accounts and books of account, bonds and obligations, contracts, actions and rights of actions, and any and all other things which it may have received and which it is not entitled by this act to hold; and such reincorporated organization shall thereupon succeed to any and all rights, privileges, powers and property which it is authorized by this act to hold.