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or purchase price in any county where the applicant is known or
suspected to own property. When so filed, the debt represented
thereby shall have the force and effect of a lien of judgment and may
be enforced as such.

13-115. Compliance; vested right or interest not affected.

All proceedings for the issuance of a patent following June 1, 1967,
shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions hereof; but no
such proceeding or any determination therein shall destroy or affect
any vested right or interest acquired by any person under a warrant
or certificate of survey.

13-116. Patent not to affect riparian rights, nor issue for land cov-
ered by navigable waters.

No patent hereafter issued out of the Land Office shall impair or
affect the rights of riparian proprietors, and no patent shall here-
after issue for land covered by navigable waters.

13-117. Copies of record books prior to 1787.

The Commissioner of the Land Office is hereby authorized to de-
mand any record book prior to 1787 from any clerk of the court in the
State of Maryland, giving a receipt therefor, and for the purpose of
copying said record by photographic process, but that said record
shall not be kept longer by the said Commissioner than shall be
necessary for said purpose, not to exceed sixty days; and shall be
returned by said Commissioner to said clerk of court, the expense of
transportation and insurance to be borne by the Land Office.

Title XIV—Miscellaneous rules
14-101. Aliens.

Aliens, not enemies, may own, sell, devise, dispose of, or otherwise
deal with property in the same manner as if by birth, they were
citizens of this State.

14-102. Waste.

(a)    Damages

Any mortgagor (including a grantor under a deed of trust given
as security for the payment of a debt or the performance of an
obligation) or any other person in possession of land, any life tenant,
tenant for years, tenant at will, periodic tenant, tenant in common or
joint tenant, who, without express or implied authorization, commits
or permits waste thereon, shall be liable for the actual damages
suffered, and an action may be maintained against such person even
though he may thereafter grant or assign his interest or estate in the
land.

(b)    Waste after injunction

If waste be committed after injunction to stay waste, the court
shall ascertain the damage done by the waste, by affidavit, or such
other proof, as the court may judge necessary, and may fine the
defendant to the extent of double the damage done and so ascer-