Terms Used In Maryland Code > GENERAL PROVISIONS > Title 1 - Rules of Interpretation

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• assault: means assault in any degree unless a specific degree of assault is specified. See
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• de novo: means judicial review based on an administrative record and any additional evidence that would be authorized by § 10-222(f) and (g) of the State Government Article. See
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Executor: includes an administrator and a personal representative. See
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• gift: includes an inter vivos gift, inter vivos endowment, bequest, devise, legacy, or testamentary endowment of any interest in real or personal property. See
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• legal holiday: means :
  
  (1) January 1, for New Year's Day;
  
  (2) (i) January 15, for Dr. See
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• registered mail: include the uses, procedures, and fees of the United States Postal Service;
  
  (2) "certified mail" includes "registered mail"; and
  
  (3) "registered mail" includes "certified mail". See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• this Code: means a code of the public general laws of the State that has been adopted and made evidence of the public general laws of the State under § 10-201 of the Courts Article. See
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• veteran: includes , if the individual is eligible under 38 U. See