Jenkins v. Karlton

How courts have described this case

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• “Maryland law has long recognized that acknowledg[ ]ment of a debt barred by limitations removes the bar to pursuing the remedy.”
• “Maryland law has long recognized that acknowledgment of a debt barred by limitations removes the bar to pursuing the remedy.”
• parol evidence not admissible to inject a condition not apparent on the fact of a promissory note
• under the objective law of contracts, Maryland courts seek to determine, from the language of the contract, what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have meant
• under the objective law of contracts, Maryland courts seek to determine, from the language of the contract, what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have meant
• “The statute of limitations does not extinguish the debt; it bars the remedy only. Thus, Maryland law has long recognized that acknowledgment of a debt barred by limitations removes the bar to pursuing the remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).