Maryland Code, COMMERCIAL LAW 2A-307
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Terms Used In Maryland Code, COMMERCIAL LAW 2A-307
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (§ 2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See
- Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this title and any other applicable rules of law. See
- Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See
- Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See
- Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See
(1) Except as otherwise provided in § 2A-306, a creditor of a lessee takes subject to the lease contract.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section and in §§ 2A-306 and 2A-308, a creditor of a lessor takes subject to the lease contract unless the creditor holds a lien that attached to the goods before the lease contract became enforceable.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in §§ 9-317, 9-321, and 9-323, a lessee takes a leasehold interest subject to a security interest held by a creditor of the lessor.