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Terms Used In Maryland Code, REAL PROPERTY 2-102

  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • 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
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Any person seized of an estate tail, in possession, reversion, or remainder, in any land, tenement, or hereditament may grant and sell it in the form of a grant as if he were seized of an estate in fee simple and the grant is good and available, to all intents and purposes, against every person whom the grantor might debar by any mode of common recovery, or by any other means.