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Terms Used In Maryland Code, REAL PROPERTY 4-103

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
(a) If a deed is executed, acknowledged, and, if required, recorded, the validity of the deed in respect to its execution and delivery by the grantor to the grantee is presumed.

(b) Subsection (a) of this section applies to a lease even though it is not acknowledged.