the application of the guardian ... decree a conveyance of the property, by mortgage or deed of trust....” We note tangentially that the Maryland Court of Appeals observed that "[i]t is not altogether clear how a court in a foreign jurisdiction ‘decrees’ the sale of property in Maryland!,] ” and that Maryland law generally does not require court approval for such a conveyance. Id. at 244 & n. 6; see also id. at 258 n. 16 ("[T]he Maryland statute permitted guardians to do just what the guardian did in executing and delivering the bill obligatory."). 3 . 11A John Alan Appleman & Jean Appleman, Insurance Law and Practice § 6712, at 407-08 (1981). 4 . Appleman, supra, § 6713, at 415 (describing the rule "generally” but not unanimously fol 9 A.D. 639, 639, 291 N.Y.S. 82 (N.Y.App.Div.1936) (<HOLDING>). 7 .See D.C.Code § 21-115, which provides
holding that a surety has standing to sue for a progress payment released by the government after notification by the surety of unpaid subcontractors holding that there is no privity of contract between the government and a surety since the government is not a party to the agreement between the surety and the contractor the government never undertakes an obligation to the surety recognizing that the gjovernment as obligee owes no equitable duty to a surety  unless the surety notifies the government that the principal has defaulted under the bond  notice by the surety is essential before any governmental duty exists holding that taxable costs included only the premium on a surety bond posted on appeal not the fees paid for letters of credit to secure the bond where the state statute and court rule only specifically allowed for premium on any surety bond holding that surety was not liable for losses arising out of 1931 acts by the principal a committee of an incompetent person because the bond agreement limited the scope of the suretys undertaking by providing that the surety would assume liability on fiduciary court bonds for all losses occurring on and after the 1st day of may 1933 and all losses as to which no notice was received by the old company prior to midnight of april 30th 1933