C. Trustee Duties Courts are vested with the authority to appoint trustees by decree to perform certain functions in connection with the judicial sale of property. Md. Rule 14-302(b). Thus, the trustee’s power in such a situation “emanatefs] from the court.” Goldberg v. Frick Elec. Co., 363 Md. 683, 693, 770 A.2d 182, 188 (2001) (quotation omitted). In this relationship between the court and the trustee, the court is the vendor and the trustee is an agent of the court. Goldberg, 363 Md. at 693, 770 A.2d at 187-88; Talbert v. Seek, 210 Md. 34, 43, 122 A.2d 469, 473 (1956); Lurman v. Hubner, 75 Md. 268, 273, 23 A. 646, 648 (1892). Therefore, the resulting judicial sale is a transaction between the court and the purchaser. Columbia Paper Bag Co. of Balt. City v. Carr, 116 M , 433 (1933) (<HOLDING>). A ratification by the court signifies a
holding that until a judicial sale by a trustee is ratified by the court it is an executory contract  an offer to purchase which has not been accepted quotations and citations omitted holding in the analogous context of choiceoflaw in relation to the sale of personal property that compensation for arranging the sale is assessed apart from underlying sale holding chapter 13 plan funded by sale of property was not feasible where the debtor had not stated the time period or terms of the sale and no provision was made for failure to sell the property holding that where property subject to the irss timely filed lien is sold during a nonjudicial sale and the irs is not given notice of the sale the sale of the property is made subject to and without disturbing the lien holding that subsequent to a judicial sale the report of the sale must be made to and ratified by the court before a deed for the property is given by the trustee to the purchaser