Michigan Compiled Laws
Act 200 of 1945 - Marketable Record Title (565.101 - 565.109)
Section 565.106 - Construction of Act; Purpose; Extinguishment of Claim.

Sec. 6.
This act shall be construed to effect the legislative purpose of simplifying and facilitating land title transactions by allowing persons dealing with the record title owner, as defined in this act, to rely on the record title covering a period of not more than 20 years for mineral interests and 40 years for other interests prior to the date of such dealing and to that end to extinguish all claims that affect or may affect the interest dealt with, the existence of which claims arises out of or depends upon any act, transaction, event, or omission antedating the 20-year period for mineral interests and the 40-year period for other interests, unless within the 20-year period for mineral interests or the 40-year period for other interests a notice of claim as provided in section 3 has been filed for record. The claims extinguished by this act are any and all interests of any nature whatever, however denominated, and whether the claims are asserted by a person sui juris or under disability, whether the person is within or outside the state, and whether the person is natural or corporate, or private or governmental.
History: 1945, Act 200, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945 ;-- CL 1948, 565.106 ;-- Am. 1997, Act 154, Imd. Eff. Dec. 22, 1997

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