Maryland Code, ESTATES AND TRUSTS 2-101
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Terms Used In Maryland Code, ESTATES AND TRUSTS 2-101
- County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
In the estates of decedents law, the word “court” means the orphans’ court in a county, or the court exercising the jurisdiction of the orphans’ court in a county.