§ 254.51 Bridge over navigable waters in certain counties; petition
§ 254.52 Bridge over navigable waters in certain counties; meeting of county supervisors, notices; plans and specifications
§ 254.53 Bridge over navigable waters in certain counties; board of supervisors, authority; type of bridge
§ 254.54 County under road system; authority of commissioners; specifications; type of bridges not to be changed
§ 254.55 County under road system; special assessment district, hearings, objections, boundary changes
§ 254.56 County under road system; commissioners’ final order
§ 254.57 County under road system; commissioners’ powers and duties
§ 254.58 County under road system; rights, duties, remedies, limitations; legislative intent
§ 254.59 County under road system; annual installments, apportionment of cost; announcement of decision, exemption
§ 254.60 County not under road system; supervisors’ authority, delegation
§ 254.61 County not under road system; powers and duties, legislative intent
§ 254.62 Bridge deemed public highway; county maintenance
§ 254.63 Tax limit; borrowing funds
§ 254.64 Recovery of damages; plaintiffs; actions within year
§ 254.65 Recovery of damages; action by summons, service; alias and pluries summons
§ 254.66 Recovery of damages; pleadings, proceedings
§ 254.67 Recovery of damages; tax levy

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 254 > Act 398 of 1919 - Bridges Over Navigable Waters

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • annual meeting: when applied to townships, mean the annual meeting required by law to be held on the Saturday immediately preceding the first Monday in April. See Michigan Laws 8.3d
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • average weekly wage: means the weekly wage earned by the employee at the time of the employee's injury in all employment, inclusive of overtime, premium pay, and cost of living adjustment, and exclusive of any fringe or other benefits which continue during the disability. See Michigan Laws 418.371
  • Carrier: means a self-insurer or an insurer. See Michigan Laws 418.601
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • director: means the director of the bureau or his or her duly authorized representative. See Michigan Laws 418.201
  • employee: means :
  (a) A person in the service of the state, a county, city, township, village, or school district, under any appointment, or contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written. See Michigan Laws 418.161
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • in writing: shall be construed to include printing, engraving, and lithographing; except that if the written signature of a person is required by law, the signature shall be the proper handwriting of the person or, if the person is unable to write, the person's proper mark, which may be, unless otherwise expressly prohibited by law, a clear and classifiable fingerprint of the person made with ink or another substance. See Michigan Laws 8.3q
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • 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
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.