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Terms Used In Maryland Code, ESTATES AND TRUSTS 5-505

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Personal representative: includes an administrator and an executor. See
Until the foreign personal representative pays, or secures to the satisfaction of the register, the payment of the inheritance tax fixed as provided in § 5-504 of this subtitle, with interest and penalties, and files the receipt for the payment or evidence of security with the register to be included among the permanent records of the court, the unpaid tax obligation shall constitute a lien against the property in accordance with the provisions of § 13-806 of the Tax – General Article.