Report of the Commission on Revision and Consolidation of Statutes of the State of Michigan Transmitting a Proposed Judicature Act |
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affidavit allowed amended by act amount appear application appointed assigned assumpsit attachment attorney bill bond cause of action certified chancery chapter circuit court commissioner circuit judge claim clerk commenced copy corporation costs county clerk court of record creditor damages debt deceased decree deemed direct discharge dollars duty entitled evidence execution executor or administrator fees filed garnishee guardian habeas corpus hearing interest issue judge of probate judgment jurisdiction jurors jury justice lands letters testamentary liable manner ment Modified mortgage notice oath officer paid party payment pending person petition plaintiff preceding section premises probate court proceed prosecute real estate recover register of deeds rendered replevin residence served service of process set-off sheriff substantial change suit or proceeding summons Supersedes section supreme court sureties term therein thereof thereto thereupon tion trial trustee unless verdict witness writ
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Page 81 - Every action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest; but an executor, administrator, guardian, trustee of an express trust, a party with whom or in whose name a contract has been made for the benefit of another, or a party authorized by statute may sue in his own name without joining with him the party for whose benefit the action is brought...
Page 415 - Administration of the estate of a person dying intestate, shall be granted to some one or more of the persons hereinafter mentioned, and they shall be respectively entitled to the same, in the following order : 1.
Page 127 - No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing documentary evidence before the commission or in obedience to the subpoena of the commission on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture.
Page 82 - Any person may be made a defendant, who has or claims an interest in the controversy, adverse to the plaintiff, or who is a necessary party to a complete determination or settlement of the question involved therein.
Page 492 - ... association willing to receive it, embracing in its objects the purpose of caring for or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected children, which association shall have been accredited as hereinafter provided.
Page 197 - Such exemption shall not extend to any mortgage thereon lawfully obtained ; but such mortgage or other alienation of such land by the owner thereof, if a married man, shall not be valid without the signature of the wife to the same.
Page 439 - In such decree the court shall name the persons, and the proportions or parts to which each shall be entitled; and such persons shall have the right to demand and recover their respective shares from the executor or administrator, or any other person having the same...
Page 127 - Act, or of any amendments thereto, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Page 130 - A husband cannot be examined for or against his wife, without her consent, nor a wife for or against her husband, without his consent; nor can either, during the marriage or afterwards, be, without the consent of the other, examined as to any communication made by one to the other during the marriage...
Page 194 - No attachment or levy upon shares of stock for which a certificate is outstanding shall be valid until such certificate be actually seized by the o'fficer making the attachment or levy, or be surrendered to the corporation which issued it, or its transfer by the holder be enjoined.