Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.6060

Sec. 6060. (1) When judgment is recovered for a debt or any part of a debt secured by mortgage of real estate, there can be no sale of the equity of redemption in such estate, by virtue of any execution upon such judgment. (2) Whenever any execution against the property of the defendant is issued on such a judgment, the plaintiff or his attorney shall indorse on such execution a brief description of the mortgaged premises with a direction not to levy upon said premises or any part thereof and if execution cannot be collected from the other property of the defendant, the officer shall return the same unsatisfied.