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Terms Used In Maryland Code, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 3-804

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
  • Personal representative: includes an administrator and an executor. See
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
In the distribution of the general assets of a trust company that dissolves voluntarily, the person who succeeds the trust company as a personal representative, guardian, trustee, receiver, or other fiduciary has a preference for all debts and accounts that are due to or held by it as fiduciary over all other debts and liabilities, including salaries and wages of employees.