Devan v. Bomar

In mortgage foreclosure law, as elsewhere, society’s interest in finality and repose is a weighty one. As with statutes of limitations generally, procedural deadlines for raising certain challenges are established and strictly enforced. An unexcused failure to comply with a clear deadline may doom what might otherwise have been a highly meritorious challenge, had it been timely filed. In Bates v. Cohn, 417 Md. 309, 329-30, 9 A.3d 846 (2010), Judge Harrell pointed out why in foreclosure law a time for closing the books with certainty is an economic necessity or is, at least, economically…