{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vi-5","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. VI, § 5","heading":"Court rules; distinctions between law and equity; master in chancery.","body":"Sec. 5.\n\nThe supreme court shall by general rules establish, modify, amend and simplify the practice and procedure in all courts of this state. The distinctions between law and equity proceedings shall, as far as practicable, be abolished. The office of master in chancery is prohibited.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article VI"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20VI%20%C2%A7%205","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"4e97e211e7c50cc047ad965aafeb7ed6d0724f09cebf3d9b6c82d60413871747","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vi-4","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-vi-6","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}