§ 600.565 Judicial clerks; appointment, duties, salary
§ 600.571 Circuit court clerks; duties, accounting
§ 600.572 Deposits with court; bond of clerk
§ 600.573 Deposits with court; deposit in bank
§ 600.574 Deposits with court; certificate; securities, accounting
§ 600.575 Deposits with court; payment on court order
§ 600.576 Deposits with court; liability of payor
§ 600.579 Deputy circuit court clerks; appointment, salary
§ 600.581 Sheriff and deputy; attendance at court sessions
§ 600.582 Sheriff and deputy; officers of court; powers; disobedience or default
§ 600.584 Sheriff and deputy, coroner; aid in performing duties
§ 600.585 Sheriff and deputy, coroner; power of the county
§ 600.586 Sheriff, deputy sheriff, or county medical examiner licensed to practice law; prohibited conduct; exceptions; violation as civil infraction; penalty
§ 600.587 Sheriff, constable, or other officer; wilful neglect to execute process; penalty
§ 600.588 Sheriff and deputy, constable; attending jury
§ 600.589 Fine; excuse, remission
§ 600.591 Operation of circuit court; appropriation; employer; authority; collective bargaining; appointment, supervision, discipline, or dismissal of employees; transfer of employees; effect of existing collec
§ 600.593 Employee of circuit court in third judicial circuit as employee of Wayne county judicial council or of Wayne county
§ 600.593a Wayne county judicial council; creation; successor agency; composition; employees of former state judicial council serving in third judicial circuit court; authority of employer or chief judge; collec
§ 600.594 Employee as member of state employees’ retirement system
§ 600.595 Circuit court in third judicial circuit; ownership and use of personal property; reimbursement for property removed from court
§ 600.596 Employees of Detroit recorder’s court transferred to third judicial circuit court; rights and benefits; collective bargaining agreement

Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 600 > Act 236 of 1961 > Chapter 5 > COURT OFFICERS

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Butter: means the product usually known as butter that is made exclusively from wholesome milk or cream, or both, with or without common salt, and with or without additional coloring matter and containing not less than 80% by weight of milk fat. See Michigan Laws 288.571
  • Cheese: means natural cheeses, processed cheeses, blended cheeses, cheese foods, cheese spreads, nonstandard cheese products, and related foods described in 21 C. See Michigan Laws 288.571
  • Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
  • Civil infraction: means an act or omission that is prohibited by a law and is not a crime under that law or that is prohibited by an ordinance, as defined in section 8701, and is not a crime under that ordinance, and for which civil sanctions may be ordered. See Michigan Laws 600.113
  • Community foundation: means an organization that meets all of the following requirements:
  (i) Has been in existence for at least 10 years. See Michigan Laws 128.3
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Cream: means any of the following:
    •   (i) Light cream containing not less than 18% but not more than 30% milkfat. See Michigan Laws 288.571
  • 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.
  • Department: means the Michigan department of agriculture. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • Director: means the director of the Michigan department of agriculture or his or her designee. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • Distributor: means a person other than a producer or processor who offers for sale, holds for sale, or sells at wholesale milk or dairy products. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • Dry milk product: means a product resulting from the drying of milk or a dairy product. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • Dryer: means equipment that dries milk or a dairy product. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • 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.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Freezer: means mechanical equipment used to lower the temperature of a mix while, at the same time, incorporating air into the mix. See Michigan Laws 288.573
  • Frozen desserts: means desserts made from dairy products described in 21 C. See Michigan Laws 288.573
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • grantor: may be construed as including every person from or by whom any estate in lands passes in or by any deed. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
  • 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
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article conforming to a requirement imposed under this act that any word, statement, or other information appearing on the label also appears on the outside container or wrapper of the retail package of the article or be easily legible through the outside container or wrapper. See Michigan Laws 288.573
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying the article. See Michigan Laws 288.573
  • Milk: means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of 1 or more healthy cows, goats, sheep, or other dairy animals. See Michigan Laws 288.574
  • milk plant: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or dairy products are collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, aseptically processed, packaged, or prepared for distribution. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • milk product: means products that include, but are not limited to, evaporated milk, condensed skim milk, condensed milk, condensed buttermilk, condensed milk solids, concentrate milk, nonfat dry milk, dry milk, dry cream, dry whey, dry buttermilk, butter, buttermilk, cheese, cheese products, ice cream, sherbet, frozen desserts, dairy confections, or novelties, related dairy products with butter fat or milk solids substitutions, filtered milk components, infant formula manufactured with dairy ingredients, whey, whey cream, and other products for human consumption not regulated under the grade A milk law of 2001 or as determined appropriate by the director. See Michigan Laws 288.572
  • Milk tank truck: means both a bulk milk pickup tanker and a milk transport tank. See Michigan Laws 288.574
  • Mix: means ice cream mix, yogurt mix, sherbet mix, and any other unfrozen pasteurized liquid mixture which is to be manufactured into a frozen dessert including a liquid mixture intended for processing into quiescently frozen confections. See Michigan Laws 288.575
  • Municipality: means a city, village, township, or county. See Michigan Laws 128.3
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, company, limited liability company, cooperative, association, firm, trustee, educational institution, state or local government unit, or corporation. See Michigan Laws 288.576
  • 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.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Processor: means the owner or operator of a dairy plant. See Michigan Laws 288.576
  • Producer: means a person who owns or operates a dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including a person who markets milk on behalf of a producer pursuant to a marketing agreement. See Michigan Laws 288.576
  • Rerun: means a frozen dessert that is not placed in its final container immediately after passing through the freezing process and is intended to be melted and reprocessed or refrozen. See Michigan Laws 288.576
  • Retail: means selling or offering for sale dairy products directly to a consumer. See Michigan Laws 288.576
  • Sanitary standards: means the dairy equipment construction standards or accepted dairy system operating practices formulated by 1 of the following:
    •   (i) 3-A sanitary standards committees representing the international association for food protection, the United States public health service, the United States department of agriculture, and the dairy industry committee. See Michigan Laws 288.577
  • Sanitizing: means the application of any effective method or sanitizing agent in compliance with the federal act to a clean surface for the destruction of pathogens and other organisms as far as is practicable. See Michigan Laws 288.577
  • seal: shall be construed to include any of the following:
    •   (a) The impression of the seal on the paper alone. See Michigan Laws 8.3n
  • shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • United States: shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o