8 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 3
(g) (F) "Interested person" means (1) a person named as
Executor in a will, and a person serving as personal representative
after judicial or administrative probate; (2) a legatee in being,
whether his interest is vested or contingent, until his legacy is paid in
full, and (3) an heir even if decedent died testate except that an heir
of a testate decedent ceases to be an "interested person" after the com-
pletion of administrative or judicial probate (unless judicial probate
is requested subsequent to the completion of administrative probate,
and then after the completion of the judicial probate). "Interested
person" includes a person as above defined who is (i) a minor or
other person under disability, or (ii) the judicially appointed guard-
ian, committee, conservator or trustee for such person, if any, and if
none, then the parent or other person having assumed responsibility
for such person.
(h) (G) "Issue" is defined in Section 1-209.
(i) (H) "Judicial probate" means probate as defined in Section
5-401.
(j) (I) "Legacy" means any property disposed of by will,
including any property disposed of in a residuary clause and any
assets passing by the decedent's exercise of a testamentary power of
appointment.
(k) (J) "Legatee" means a person who under the terms of a will
would receive a legacy. "Legatee" includes a trustee but not a bene-
ficiary of an interest under the trust.
(l) (K) "Letters" include letters testamentary and letters of
administration.
(m) (L) "Maryland Rules" means the Rules promulgated by the
Court of Appeals of Maryland under the authority of the Constitu-
tion and Laws of Maryland.
(n) (M) "Net estate" means the property of the decedent
exclusive of the family allowance and enforceable claims against the
estate, except as used in Section 3-102.
(o) (N) "Personal representative" includes an executor or ad-
ministrator but not a special administrator.
(p) (O) "Property" includes both real and personal property,
and any right or interest therein. "Property" refers to (1) all real
and personal property of a decedent and (2) any right or interest
therein which does not pass, at the time of the decedent's death, to
another person by the terms of the instrument under which it is held,
or by operation of law.
(q) (P) "Register" is defined in Section 2-201.
(r) (Q) "Representation" is defined in Section 1-210.
(s) (R) "Special administrator" means an administrator ap-
pointed as provided in Section 6-401.
(S) "Will" means any written instrument, including a
codicil, which is executed in form prescribed by Sections 4-102
through 4-104, and has not been revoked in any manner provided by
Section 4-105.
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