Volume 263 — Maryland Reports

<p>September Term, 1971.]</p>

SUMMARY JUDGMENTS — APPEAL — <italic>Multiple Claims — Direction By</italic><italic>Trial Judge That Case "Will Be Final As To The Motion And</italic><italic>Pleadings And You Might Note Your Appeal" Was Compliance With</italic><italic>Maryland Rule 605 a So That Appeal Might Lie From Entry Of</italic><italic>Summary Judgment On One Claim</italic>. p. 606 SET-OFF — <italic>Right To A Set-Off Is Not An Incident To A Debt But</italic><italic>To The Remedy To Secure Payment Of The Debt And Is Accomplished</italic><italic>Only By Judicial Action In A Proceeding In Which Both Parties</italic><italic>Were Actors</italic>. pp. 607-608 CONTRACTS — <italic>Acceleration — Where A Party Has An Optional Right</italic><italic>To Accelerate The Maturity Of A Debt Upon Default, Such A Clause</italic><italic>Is Not Self-Executing So That The Maturity Date Is Not</italic><italic>Accelerated Until The Party Explicitly Treats It As Such</italic>. p. 608 CONTRACTS — <italic>Acceleration — Where A Party In Default Satisfies</italic><italic>The Aggrieved Party's Demands In Order To Continue A Contract In</italic><italic>Force, The Aggrieved Party Cannot Subsequently Exercise Its Right</italic><italic>To Accelerate The Maturity Date</italic>. pp. 608-610 SUMMARY JUDGMENTS — CONTRACTS — <italic>Entry Of Summary Judgment Is</italic><italic>Improper Where A Defaulting Party Has Ostensibly Satisfied The</italic><italic>Aggrieved Party's Conditions For Continuing The Contract In Force</italic><italic>And The Aggrieved Party Has Refused To Present For Payment The</italic><italic>Defaulting Party's Negotiable Instrument</italic>. pp. 610-611 R.L.H.