2010 Maryland Code
COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
TITLE 6 - PERSONAL JURISDICTION, VENUE, PROCESS AND PRACTICE
Subtitle 4 - Practice in General
Section 6-401 - Survival of actions.
§ 6-401. Survival of actions.
(a) At law.- Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a cause of action at law, whether real, personal, or mixed, survives the death of either party.
(b) Slander.- A cause of action for slander abates upon the death of either party unless an appeal has been taken from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff.
(c) In equity.- A right of action in equity survives the death of either party if the court can grant effective relief in spite of the death.
[An. Code 1957, art. 16, § 1; art. 75, §§ 15A, 15B; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 1; 1988, ch. 359.]
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