PocketLaw | Maryland Code | Distress for Rent

Distress for Rent

Checkout our iOS App for a better way to browser and research.

Definitions

Action at law; jurisdiction; leases subject to distress; venue

Form and contents of petition; service

Show-cause order

Order of levy; service of petition and order; inventory; return; amended levy and inventory

Goods levied on; exclusions from levy

Exemptions from levy; goods subject to security interest

Levied goods in court

Entry under levy; forcible entry; time of levy

Removal of levied goods; bond

Levy on goods of third person; finality of levy; removal of excluded goods

Effect of levy on title to goods; risk of loss of levied goods

Expense of removing goods; liability for removal of goods affixed to the property

Answer to petition; hearing; final order of sale

Order to follow removed goods; goods in another jurisdiction; entry under order to follow goods

Bond for return of levied goods; order to release goods

Order to make forcible entry after levy on goods

Notice of sale

Manner of sale; removal for sale

Disposition of unsold goods; surplus proceeds of sale; order in which goods to be sold

Security for costs

Costs

Rights of third party when goods sold under distress

Termination of leases; possession of premises

Deficiency judgment; hearing; exemptions

Levy on goods of husband and wife

Amendment of petition or other pleading

Death of tenant; corporate tenant ceasing to exist; order requiring posting of copy of petition

Assignment of leases; liability of assignee

Service of process

Stay when notice not received

Right to appeal; time for taking; trial; stays