# Real Property (GRP)

## Title 8. Landlord and Tenant

### Subtitle 4. Landlord's Remedies Other Than Distraint

#### Section 8-405

(a) If a tenant under a lease dies intestate and without next of kin, the landlord may bring an action for summary ejectment under Sec. 8-401 of this subtitle against the tenant named in the lease notwithstanding the tenant's death.

(b) The landlord shall certify to the court in the written complaint required under Sec. 8-401(b)(1) of this subtitle that, to the best of the landlord's knowledge, the tenant is deceased, intestate, and without next of kin.

(c) Property or income from property that a landlord holds for a deceased, intestate tenant without next of kin shall be presumed abandoned in accordance with Title 17 of the Commercial Law Article.

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Md. Code Ann., Real Prop. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)