Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Maryland

The items you described are all recorded uses (easements), restrictions on usage (covenants), or claims (lien) against the property. For example, a prior owner undoubtedly granted an easement to a utility, or possibly to an adjoining landowner, allowing them to place power lines in the case of the utility, or traverse the property in the case of the adjoining landowner. A new owner must honor these prior conditions. There might be a court judgment against the landowner that pre-dates transfer of title, in which case the grantee will be subject to satisfying that judgment if properly recorded in the land records. This is a standard clause that appears in almost every deed.