600.2101 Cases tried without jury; objections to testimony or evidence; exclusion of testimony from record; taking of excluded testimony; return of excluded testimony to court of appeals or supreme court. Sec. 2101. In all cases tried without a jury, the court shall rule upon all objections to the competency, relevancy, or materiality of testimony, or […]
600.2102 Affidavit taken in other state or country; authentication. Sec. 2102. If by law the affidavit of a person residing in another state of the United States or in a foreign country is required or may be received in an action or judicial proceeding in this state, to entitle the affidavit to be read, it […]
600.2103 Judicial records of other states or countries; use as evidence; authentication. Sec. 2103. The records and judicial proceedings of any court in the several states and territories of the United States and of any foreign country shall be admitted in evidence in the courts of this state upon being authenticated by the attestation of […]
600.2104 Judicial records of foreign countries; copies as evidence. Sec. 2104. Copies of such records and proceedings in the courts of a foreign country, may also be admitted in evidence upon due proof: (1) That the copy offered has been compared by the witness with the original, and is an exact copy of the whole […]
600.2105 Judicial records of foreign countries; proof by common law methods. Sec. 2105. Sections 2103 and 2104 shall not prevent the proof of any record or judicial proceedings of the courts of any foreign country, according to the rules of the common law, in any other manner than that herein directed. History: 1961, Act 236, […]
600.2106 Court order, judgment, or decree of court of record; certified copy as evidence. Sec. 2106. A copy of any order, judgment or decree, of any court of record in this state, duly authenticated by the certificate of the judge, clerk or register of such court, under the seal thereof, shall be admissible in evidence […]
600.2107 Public records; certified transcript as evidence. Sec. 2107. Copies of all papers, records, entries and documents, required or permitted by law to be filed by any public officer in his office, or to be entered or recorded therein and duly filed, entered or recorded according to law, certified by such officer to be a […]
600.2108 Secretary of state; certificate of nonexistence of record. Sec. 2108. Whenever the secretary of state charged with the legal custody of any paper, document or record shall certify that he has made diligent examination in his office for such paper, document or record and no such paper, document or record exists, such certificate shall […]
600.2109 Recorded conveyance and instruments; certified copies. Sec. 2109. All conveyances and other instruments authorized by law to be filed or recorded, and which shall be acknowledged or proved according to law, and if the same shall have been filed or recorded, the record, or a transcript of the record, or a copy of the […]
600.2110 Recorded conveyances and instruments; record in county other than situs; certified copies. Sec. 2110. The record of deeds or other instruments affecting the title to lands in this state heretofore recorded in counties in any state other than the county in which the lands described therein are located, or a certified copy thereof, shall […]
600.2111 Certificate of lost paper as evidence of loss. Sec. 2111. Whenever any officer to whom the legal custody of any paper, document or record shall belong, shall certify that he has made diligent examination in his office for such paper, document or record, and that it cannot be found, such certificate shall be presumptive […]
600.2112 Certificates of justices of the peace of other states as evidence. Sec. 2112. The official certificate of any justice of the peace within any other state of the United States, of the proceedings and judgment in any case before him as such justice, with the certificate of the clerk of any court of record […]
600.2113 Constitution, laws, and resolutions; official publication as evidence. Sec. 2113. The printed copies of the constitution, laws and resolutions of this state, whether of a public or private nature, which shall be published under the authority of the government, shall be admitted as sufficient evidence thereof in all courts, and in all proceedings within […]
600.2114 Repealed. 1967, Act 178, Eff. Nov. 2, 1967. Compiler’s Notes: The repealed section stated conditions under which printed copies of constitution, laws, and resolutions of any other of the United States, of territory thereof, or of any foreign state were admissible as prima facie evidence thereof and authorized Michigan courts to take judicial notice […]
600.2114a Issues of foreign law; notice; evidence; duties of court; review on appeal. Sec. 2114a. A party who intends to raise an issue concerning the law of any jurisdiction or governmental unit thereof outside this state shall give notice in his pleadings or other reasonable written notice. In determining the law of any jurisdiction or […]
600.2115 Repealed. 1967, Act 178, Eff. Nov. 2, 1967. Compiler’s Notes: The repealed section stated conditions under which printed books or pamphlets would be admissible as prima facie evidence of session or other statutes of any of the United States, of territories thereof or of any foreign jurisdiction.
600.2116 Laws, bylaws, regulations, resolutions, and ordinances of city, village, or township as evidence. Sec. 2116. All laws, bylaws, regulations, resolutions, and ordinances of the common council or of the board of trustees of an incorporated city or village or the township board of a township in this state may be read in evidence in […]
600.2117 Device by way of seal as evidence of seal. Sec. 2117. Any device affixed to any deed or instrument in writing by way of seal, by any person signing the same, executed since the thirty-first day of December, 1827, or hereafter to be executed, shall be received in all courts, and upon all occasions […]
600.2118 Repealed. 1967, Act 178, Eff. Nov. 2, 1967. Compiler’s Notes: The repealed section stated that common law of any other of the United States, of any territory thereof, or of any foreign state could be proved as facts by parol evidence, that books of reports of cases adjudged in their courts could be admitted […]
600.2118a Foreign records and laws; evidence; copies, certification. Sec. 2118a. (1) An official record kept within the United States, or any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof, or the Panama Canal zone, the trust territory of the Pacific islands or the Ryukyu islands, or an entry therein, when admissible for any purpose, may be […]
