(a) If a lease for more than three months is assigned, the assignee is liable to distress for any goods on the leased premises as though originally named in the lease as tenant.
(b) Any goods of the assignee on the leased premises shall be subject to the landlord’s distress claim to the same extent as though the assignee was originally a tenant. This liability of goods exists regardless of whether the assignment was oral or written and regardless of the terms set out in the assignment. The obligation of the assignee of the lease for personal liability shall be restricted to the terms and agreements contained in the assignment of lease. The exercise of any right of the landlord against the assignee provided in this section does not bar any rights the landlord may have against the assignor.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Subtitle 3 - Distress for Rent
Section 8-302 - Action at Law; Jurisdiction; Leases Subject to Distress; Venue
Section 8-303 - Form and Contents of Petition; Service
Section 8-304 - Show-Cause Order
Section 8-306 - Goods Levied On; Exclusions From Levy
Section 8-307 - Exemptions From Levy; Goods Subject to Security Interest
Section 8-308 - Levied Goods in Court
Section 8-309 - Entry Under Levy; Forcible Entry; Time of Levy
Section 8-310 - Removal of Levied Goods; Bond
Section 8-311 - Levy on Goods of Third Person; Finality of Levy; Removal of Excluded Goods
Section 8-312 - Effect of Levy on Title to Goods; Risk of Loss of Levied Goods
Section 8-313 - Expense of Removing Goods; Liability for Removal of Goods Affixed to the Property
Section 8-314 - Answer to Petition; Hearing; Final Order of Sale
Section 8-316 - Bond for Return of Levied Goods; Order to Release Goods
Section 8-317 - Order to Make Forcible Entry After Levy on Goods
Section 8-318 - Notice of Sale
Section 8-319 - Manner of Sale; Removal for Sale
Section 8-321 - Security for Costs
Section 8-323 - Rights of Third Party When Goods Sold Under Distress
Section 8-324 - Termination of Leases; Possession of Premises
Section 8-325 - Deficiency Judgment; Hearing; Exemptions
Section 8-326 - Levy on Goods of Husband and Wife
Section 8-327 - Amendment of Petition or Other Pleading
Section 8-329 - Assignment of Leases; Liability of Assignee
Section 8-330 - Service of Process
Section 8-331 - Stay When Notice Not Received
Section 8-332 - Right to Appeal; Time for Taking; Trial; Stays