Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 554.7 (2026)

Estates in land; kinds as respects time of enjoyment.

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Revised Statutes of 1846

R.S. of 1846

554.7 Estates in land; kinds as respects time of enjoyment.

Sec. 7.

Estates, as respects the time of their enjoyment, are divided into estates in possession, and estates in expectancy.

History: R.S. 1846, Ch. 62 ;-- CL 1857, 2591 ;-- CL 1871, 4074 ;-- How. 5523 ;-- CL 1897, 8789 ;-- CL 1915, 11525 ;-- CL 1929, 12927 ;-- CL 1948, 554.7

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 2006–2019 · leading case: Wengel v. Wengel, 714 N.W.2d 371 (Mich. Ct. App. 2006).

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Wengel v. Wengel, 714 N.W.2d 371 (Mich. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 2× “MCL 554.7, MCL 554.8, and MCL 554.9. “A future estate is an estate limited to commence in possession at a future day, either without the intervention of a precedent estate, or on the determination, by lapse of time or otherwise, of a precedent estate, created at the same time.”

Natalie Olson v. Cecelia Bosanac (Mich. Ct. App. 2018). “The trial court also correctly recognized that it therefore could not grant complete partition, or order sale and divisions of the proceeds in lieu of partition, with respect to all of the present possessory and expectancy interests in the Property, see MCL 554.7; MCL 554.8; MCL…”

Marsheri D D Everson v. Delores J Williams (Mich. Ct. App. 2019). “MCL 554.7 provides that “[e]states, as respects the time of their enjoyment, are divided into estates in possession, and estates in expectancy.”

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