Cty. Comm'rs, St. Mary's Cty. v. Aiken

Board of County Commissioners of St. Mary’s County, Maryland v. Barbara and Christopher Aiken, et al., No. 28, September Term, 2022. Opinion by Hotten, J. REAL PROPERTY – DEED CONSTRUCTION – FEE SIMPLE TITLE CONVEYED BY DEED We apply “basic principles of contract interpretation” when “construing the language of a deed[.]” Md. Agric. Land Pres. Found. v. Claggett, 412 Md. 45, 62,

985 A.2d 565, 575

(2009) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). When the language of the deed “is plain and unambiguous there is no room for construction, and a court must presume that the parties meant what…