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2016 Maryland Code
Real Property
Title 4 - Requisites of Valid Instruments
Subtitle 1 - General Rules
§ 4-105. Words of inheritance unnecessary to create fee simple or easement
MD Real Prop Code § 4-105 (2016) What's This?
No words of inheritance are necessary to create an estate in fee simple or an easement by grant or by reservation. Unless a contrary intention appears by express terms or is necessarily implied, every grant of land passes a fee simple estate, and every grant or reservation of an easement passes or reserves an easement in perpetuity.
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