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§ 15-205. Checks payable to fiduciary

West's Annotated Code of MarylandEstates and TrustsEffective: October 1, 2019

West's Annotated Code of Maryland
Estates and Trusts (Refs & Annos)
Title 15. Fiduciaries (Refs & Annos)
Subtitle 2. Maryland Uniform Fiduciaries Act (Refs & Annos)
Effective: October 1, 2019
MD Code, Estates and Trusts, § 15-205
§ 15-205. Checks payable to fiduciary
If a check or other bill of exchange is drawn by a fiduciary or in the name of the fiduciary's principal by a fiduciary empowered to draw the instrument in the name of the principal, payable to the fiduciary personally, or payable to a third person and transferred by the third person to the fiduciary, and is thereafter transferred by the fiduciary, whether in payment of a personal debt of the fiduciary or otherwise, the transferee is not bound to inquire whether the fiduciary is committing a breach of the obligation as fiduciary in transferring the instrument, and is not chargeable with notice that the fiduciary is committing a breach of the obligation as fiduciary unless the transferee takes the instrument with actual knowledge of the breach or with knowledge of the facts that the action of the transferee in taking the instrument amounts to bad faith.

Credits

Added by Acts 1974, c. 11, § 2, eff. July 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 2019, c. 197, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2019.
Formerly Art. 37A, § 6.
MD Code, Estates and Trusts, § 15-205, MD EST & TRST § 15-205
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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