When the vendor in a land contract has ceased by law to be bound by the provisions of the contract and is entitled to a release therefrom, the vendee named in said contract shall upon request by such vendor execute a discharge of the contract in the same manner as now provided by law for the discharge of mortgages and for a refusal to so discharge the same he shall be subject to a penalty in the sum of One Hundred ($100) Dollars and also for whatever actual damages are occasioned by his neglect and refusal to provide such discharge.36

36. When the vendor named in said contract has ceased in law to be bound by the provisions of the contract, and is entitled to a release therefrom, the vendee named in said contract, his heirs or assigns shall, when requested by said vendor, execute a discharge of said contract in the same manner as now provided by law for the discharge (discharging) of mortgages, and for a refusal to so discharge the same he shall be subject to the same penalties as are now provided by law for a refusal to discharge a mortgage after the same has been fully paid, and the party entitled to have said contract discharged from the records may proceed to enforce the discharge of the same as provided in section forty-five of chapter one hundred and fifty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one for enforcing the discharge of mortgages, and the petition or bill asking for said discharge shall contain all the material averments regarding the subject matter thereof required by said section in regard to mortgages, so far as the same are applicable to contracts for the sale of lands. Provided, however, that no contract for the sale of lands shall be deemed invalid for want of acknowledgment or recording. C. L. 11774, 1915.

The people of the State of Michigan enact that whenever any executor, administrator or guardian, appointed by any probate court of this state shall have executed any instrument in writing, purporting to be an assignment, release or discharge of any mortgage, or other evidence of a lien upon any personal or real property situate in this State, the probate judge of said court, or the register or clerk thereof, shall, when so requested, make and attach to such instrument a certificate under his hand and seal of said court, certifying the date of issuance of letters of testamentary, of administration or guardianship, as the case may be, to such executor, administrator or guardian, and the time to which they have continued in force unsuspended and unrevoked and such certificate shall be entitled to record in the office of the register of deeds, or other place of record, in any county in this state, with said instrument when the latter is entitled by law to be so recorded; and such record, or a duly certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein