When a guardian, trustee, or other person holding an estate or interest determinable upon the life of another person, shows by affidavit or otherwise to the satisfaction of the court, that:
(1) he has used his utmost efforts to procure the tenant for life to appear in the court or elsewhere, according to the order of the court;
(2) he can not procure or compel him so to appear; and
(3) the tenant for life is or was living at the time of the return made and filed, as prescribed by this subchapter —
he may continue in the possession of the estate, and receive the rents and profits for and during the infancy of the infant, or for and during the life of any other person on whose life the estate or interest depends.
(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 570, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1.)
1981 Ed., § 16-1157.
1973 Ed., § 16-1157.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 16 - Particular Actions, Proceedings and Matters. [Enacted title]
Chapter 11 - Ejectment and Other Real Property Actions
Subchapter II - Proceedings to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life
§ 16–1151. Petition by person entitled to claim; form and contents
§ 16–1152. Order to produce life tenant; service of order
§ 16–1155. Restoration of property to life tenant
§ 16–1156. Recovery of profits by person evicted
§ 16–1157. Preservation of life tenants’ rights if living at time of return