Preview:

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND No. 120 September Term, 1995 _____________________________________

THE RIDGELY CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC.

v.

NICHOLAS SMYRNIOUDIS, JR. et al.

____________________________________ Murphy, C.J. Eldridge Rodowsky Chasanow Karwacki Bell Raker, JJ. ____________________________________ OPINION BY MURPHY, C.J. ____________________________________ Filed: August 27, 1996

This

case

involves

a

judgment

enjoining

the

Ridgely

Condominium Association, Inc. (Association) from enforcing a bylaw amendment which prohibited clients of the condominium's seven first-floor commercial unit owners from entering and leaving the commercial units via the condominium lobby. I A condominium is a "communal form of estate in property consisting of individually owned units which are supported by collectively held facilities and areas." Andrews v. City of

Greenbelt, 293 Md. 69, 71, 441 A.2d 1064 (1982). The term condominium may be defined generally as a system for providing separate ownership of individual units in multiple-unit developments. In addition to the interest acquired in a particular apartment, each unit owner also is a tenant in common in the underlying fee and in the spaces and building parts used in common by all the unit owners. 4B Richard R. Powell, Powell on Real Property

Download Ridgely v. Smyrnioudis.pdf

Maryland Law