Md. Code, TP § 14-852 Tax Sales

• Library: Maryland Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through November 23, 2023
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Md. Code, TP § 14-852

When land is sold to pay county or State taxes, or both, assessed on the land and in default, and the owner of the land at the time of the tax sale, the owner's heirs, devisees, or assigns, severally, jointly or in continuous successive ownership have held the land sold in adverse possession for 7 years after the final ratification of the tax sale and before action or suit is brought, and prosecuted by the purchaser at the tax sale, the purchaser's heirs, devisees, or assigns to obtain possession of the land, the possession is a bar to all right, title, claim, interest, estate...