Michigan · MCL 750.58
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“Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously or wantonly, and without authority unhitch any horse or team belonging to another, and lawfully hitched or standing in any street, alley or other place, or who in like manner shall ride or drive such horse or team away shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
This section doesn't print a penalty of its own. Other parts of the Michigan Compiled Laws may set one; we haven't looked them up, so we don't state one here.
“History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931;-- CL 1948, 750.58 Former Law: See section 1 of Act 97 of 1885,”
The earliest year in this note is 1885. That's the earliest year the note prints. It doesn't establish when this wording was enacted, took effect or first appeared.
Our reading
In Michigan, a horse or team lawfully hitched on a street or in an alley is protected from mischief. Unhitching it without authority, willfully and maliciously or wantonly, is a misdemeanor, and so is riding or driving it away in the same manner.
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