Text & Forms (Michigan Court Rules Practice)

Chapter

1. General Provisions
2. Civil Procedure
3. Special Proceedings and Actions
4. District Court
5. Probate Court
6. Criminal Procedure
7. Appellate Rules
8. Administrative Rules of Court
9. Professional Disciplinary Proceedings
   Forms Content
• PART I. JURISDICTION AND VENUE
  1. The Michigan Judicial System
  2. Jurisdiction, Captions, Prayers for Relief
  3. Venue
  4. Disqualification of a Judge
  5. Transfer of Actions
• PART II. PARTIES AND THEIR CLAIMS
  10. Parties to an Action
  11. Joinder, Nonjoinder and Misjoinder of Parties
  12. Representative Actions
  13. Interpleader
  14. Intervention
  15. Third Party Practice
  16. Joinder of Claims, Counterclaims and Cross Claims
  17. Indigent Parties
  18. Statutes of Limitation
• PART III. PROCESS, SERVICE AND TIME
  21. Process
  22. Service and Filing of Pleadings and Other Papers
  23. Time and extensions of Time
• PART IV. PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS IN GENERAL
  26. Pleadings, Motions and Other Papers - Generally
  27. Signature, Verification and Affidavit
  28. Motions Generally
  29. Pleading Special Matters
• PART V. COMPLAINTS
  32. Complaints in General
  33. Complaints - Abuse of Process
  34. Complaints - On An Account
  35. Complaints -Assault and Battery
  36. Complaints -Bailments
  37. Commercial Paper
  38. Complaints -Conversion
  39. Complaints -Deceit
  40. Complaints -False Imprisonment
  41. Complaints -Guarantor of Debt
  42. Complaints -Interference With Rights
  43. Complaints -Invasion of Privacy
  44. Complaints -Landlord and Tenant
  45. Complaints -Libel and Slander
  46. Complaints -Malicious Prosecution
  47. Complaints -Money Had and Received
  48. Complaints -Money Lent
  49. Complaints -Negligence
  50. Complaints -Nuisance
  51. Complaints -Purchase and Sale of Personal Property - Products Liability
  52. Complaints -Purchase and Sale of Real Estate
  53. Complaints -Real Estate Broker's Commissions
  54. Complaints -Services, Labor and Materials
  55. Complaints -Trespass on Land
  56. Complaints -Miscellaneous Actions
• PART VI. APPEARANCES, ANSWERS, AND RESPONSIVE MOTIONS
  61. Answers and Replies
  62. Affirmative Defenses
  63. Responsive Motions
• PART VII. PRACTICE PRIOR TO TRIAL
  67. Amended and Supplemental Pleadings
  68. Security for Costs
  69. Consolidation; Separate Trials
  70. Notice Lis Pendens
  71. Injunctions and orders to Show Cause
• PART VIII. DISPOSITIONS AND DISCOVERY
  75. General Rules Governing Discovery
  76. Depositions Before Action or Pending Appeal
  77. Persons Before Whom Depositions may Be Taken
  78. Depositions on oral Examination
  79. Depositions on Written Questions
  80. Use of Depositions in Court
  81. Interrogatories in General
  82. Interrogatories in Specific Actions
  83. Production of Documents and Things
  84. Physical or Mental Examination of Persons
  85. Requests for Admissions
  86. Failure to make Discovery: Sanctions
  87. Discovery of Medical Information
  88. Video Depositions
• PART IX. PRETRIAL PROCEDURES
  91. Pretrial Conference
  92. Mediation
  93. Offers of Judgment
• PART X. TRIALS
  96. Trial by Jury or by Court
  97. Scheduling Trials: Adjournments
  98. Dismissal of Actions
  99. Subpoena; Order to Attend
  100. Verdicts
  101. Motion for Directed Verdict
  102. Jury Instructions: Objections
  103. Findings by the Court
• PART XI. JUDGMENTS, ORDERS, AND POST-JUDGMENT PROCEEDINGS
  107. Judgments and Orders
  108. Default Judgments
  109. Declaratory Judgments
  110. Motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict
  111. New Trials; Amendment for Judgments
  112. Relief From Judgment or Order
  113. Stay of Proceedings to Enforce Judgment
  114. Satisfaction for Judgments
  115. Taxation of Costs
• PART XII. APPEALS
  118. Appeals to Circuit Court
  119. Applications for Leave to Appeal to Circuit Court
  120. Appeals From Administrative Agencies in Contested Cases
  121. Appeals to the Court of Appeals
  122. Appeals to the Supreme Court
• PART XIII. SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS
  126. Proceedings Supplementary to Judgment
  127. Receiverships
  128. Garnishment After Judgment
• TABLE OF STATUTES; TABLE OF COURT RULES; INDEX
• TABLE OF STATUTES, RULES, AND INDEX