Terms Used In Michigan Laws 557.22

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
   A person who holds as a trustee for a married woman, real or personal property under a deed or conveyance or otherwise, may convey to the married woman, by deed or otherwise, all or any portion of the property or the rents or profits of the property for the sole and separate use and benefit of the married woman.