Terms Used In Maryland Code, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 10-120

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • 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.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • 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.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • 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.
  • 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 property: All property that is not real property.
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) In addition to any other remedies available at law or equity, the Fund is vested with all claims and rights of the former Maryland Savings-Share Insurance Corporation against any person.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any action of the Fund as insurer, subrogee, conservator, or receiver against a shareholder, director, officer, employee, agent, or other person contributing to a loss at a member association or to enforce the terms of a net worth certificate or similar obligation:

(1) A judgment obtained by the Fund shall have priority over any other judgment lien on a defendant‘s real or personal property without need for further perfection or execution thereon;

(2) All attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses of the Fund for the litigation shall be assessed as part of any judgment in favor of the Fund; and

(3) All money recovered by the Fund as insurer or subrogee shall be first applied to repay any monetary advance by the State to the Fund, including any and all fees, costs, and expenses, to further the purposes of this title. Money so recovered shall be placed in a separate account and shall be transferred as specified under § 10-110.2 of this subtitle. The separate account is not subject to attachment or other judicial process by any person.

(c) All rights, claims, and liabilities of the Fund accrue to any successor entity and, if a successor entity is not created by law, to the Maryland Department of Labor.