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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 720.601

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • 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
   A person who has been committed by the probate court before January 1, 1998, or the family division of circuit court on or after January 1, 1998 or a court of general criminal jurisdiction to an institution or agency of the state which is authorized to receive juveniles under the direction of the former department of mental health, the department of community health, the department of corrections, the former department of social services, or the family independence agency for the purpose of treatment, or training, or both, may be transferred from that institution to any other institution or agency of the state, if it appears to the satisfaction of the superintendent of the institution to which the person has been committed that the person will substantially benefit from the care and training in the other institution or facility and that the interests of the person and of the state will be best served thereby.