82                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 69

Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume), title "Revenue and Taxes,"
subtitle "Tax Sales," subheading "Foreclosure of Rights and Redemp-
tion by Equity Suits," be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

103.

The plaintiff in any proceeding to foreclose the right of redemption
shall be the holder of the certificate of sale. The defendants in any
such proceeding shall be the following:                                 

(a)    The owner of the property as disclosed by a search of the land
records of the county, of the records of the register of wills of the
county, and of the records of any court of law or equity of the county.

(b)    If the property be subject to a ground rent, the parties
defendant shall be the owner of the fee simple title and the owner of
the leasehold title as disclosed by a search of the land records of the
county, of the records of the register of wills of the county and of the
records of any court of law or equity of the county.

(c)    Any mortgagee of the property or his assignee of record,
named as such in any unreleased mortgage recorded among the land
records of the county.

(c-1) Any holders of easements, either of record, or which are

visible upon the property.

(d) The State of Maryland may be made a party defendant in
any action to foreclose the right of redemption.

It shall not be necessary to name as defendant any other person
having or claiming to have any right, title, interest, claim, lien or
equity of redemption in and to the property sold by the collector. Any
or all of such persons may be included as defendants by the designa-
tion "all persons having or claiming to have any interest in prop-
erty .... (giving a description of the property in substantially the
same form as the description which appears on the Collector's tax
bill)." Any or all such persons may be designated throughout the
proceeding by the above designation and the cause may proceed
against them by publication under order of court as hereinafter pro-
vided.

112.

At the expiration of the time limited in the order of publication,
and in the subpoena, the court shall pass its decree in the proceedings,
in accordance with the general equity jurisdiction [the] and practice
of the said court. The decree shall be final and conclusive upon the
defendants, their heirs, devisees and personal representatives and
they or any of their heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, as-
signs or successors in right, title or interest, and all defendants shall
be bound by the said decree as if they had been named in the proceed-
ings and personally served with process. If the court shall find for
the plaintiff, the decree shall vest in the plaintiff an absolute and in-
defeasible title in fee simple in the property, free and clear of all
alienations and descents of the property occurring prior to the decree
of court as herein provided and encumbrances thereon, except taxes
accruing subsequent to the date of sale and public or private ease-

ments, either of record, or which are visible upon the property, to