• A quit claim deed is a type of property conveyance.home on a golf course image by itsallgood from Fotolia.com
  
  Quit claim property laws appear in many chapters of the Michigan Compiled Laws. The spelling of the term is inconsistent, and it appears alternately as "quit claim," "quitclaim" and "quit-claim." It is almost always used in conjunction with the term "deed." West's Encyclopedia of American Law defines a quitclaim deed as "An instrument of conveyance of real property that passes any title, claim, or interest that the grantor has in the premises but does not make any representations as to the validity of such title."
  
  

State Real Estate Transfer Tax Act

• A quit claim property law appears in the State Real Estate Transfer Tax Act. Section 526 states that a quit claim deed to correct a flaw in title is exempt from the tax imposed by the act.
  
  

General Property Tax Act

• Another quit claim property law appears in the General Property Tax Act. Section 135 states that a quit claim deed is an excepted conveyance to which the section does not apply to it or to any "other conveyance containing no covenants of warranty."
  
  

Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act

• The Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act contains two quit claim property laws. Section 2132 concerns the sale of surplus land. It states: "Surplus land that is sold under this subpart shall be conveyed by quitclaim deed approved by the attorney general." Section 32503 concerns patented and unpatented lands. It states that quit claim deeds "shall contain such terms, conditions, and requirements as the department determines to be just and equitable and in conformance with the public trust."
  
  

Land Division Act

• The Land Division Act contains a quit claim property law as well. Section 226 concerns property that contains part of a public highway that touches any lake or stream with ingress and egress points to public access. It states that a circuit court has the power to order conveyance "by quitclaim deed whatever interest in the property that is held by the local unit of government to the state or township."
  
  

Conveyances of Real Property

• The most quit claim property laws are in Chapter 565, Conveyances of Real Property. Section 3 provides that a quit claim deed "shall be sufficient to pass all the estate which the grantor could lawfully convey by a deed of bargain and sale."
  
  Section 29 concerns unrecorded conveyances. It states that even if the first recorded conveyance of a property is by quit claim deed, that it "shall not affect the question of good faith of such subsequent purchaser, or be of itself notice to him of any unrecorded conveyance of the same real estate or any part thereof."
  
  Section 152 directs that a properly worded conveyance of land signed, sealed and acknowledged by the grantor is a sufficient conveyance in quit claim to the grantee. It states that the proper form is: "A.B. quit claims to C.D. (here describe the premises) for the sum of (here insert the consideration)."
  
  Section 361 concerns land contracts. It provides that when the vendee has paid the land contract in full, the vendor shall convey the land to the vendee. It further provides that the conveyance shall be made "by quitclaim deed if the vendor's assignee or grantee has not assumed the vendor's conveyancing obligation."