B. [§ 6.3] Mesne Profits and Damages

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B. [§ 6.3] Mesne Profits and Damages

In addition to recovering possession of his or her land, the plaintiff is entitled to allege and recover mesne profits and damages for detention of the property. Brown v. Housing Opportunities Comm'n of Montgomery Cty., 350 Md. 570, 581, 714 A.2d 197, 202 (1998). Mesne profits are defined as the rents and profits or the value of the use and occupation of the real property recovered in the action of possession of property, during the period the property was wrongfully...