District of Columbia Code
Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant
§ 42–3216. Landlord’s lien for rent — Property subject to lien not to be executed on by another without payment of rent due; when rent in arrears exceeds 3 months

No goods or chattels whatsoever, lying or being in or upon any messuage, lands, or tenements, which are or shall be leased for life or lives, term of years, at will, or otherwise, shall be liable to be taken by virtue of any execution on any pretence whatsoever, unless the party at whose suit the said execution is sued out, shall before the removal of such goods from off the said premises, by virtue of such execution or extent, pay to the landlord of the said premises, or his bailiff, all such sum or sums of money as are or shall be due for rent for the said premises at the time of the taking such goods or chattels by virtue of such execution; provided, the said arrears of rent do not amount to more than 3 months rent, and in case the said arrears shall exceed 3 months rent, then the said party, at whose suit such execution is sued out, paying the said landlord, or his bailiff, 3 months rent, may proceed to execute his judgment as he might have done before the making of this section; and the marshal is hereby empowered and required to levy and pay to the plaintiff as well the money so paid for rent, as the execution money.
(8 Ann, ch. 14, § 1, 1709; Kilty’s Rep. 248; Alex. Br. Stat. 681; Comp. Stat. D.C., 325, § 41.)
1981 Ed., § 45-1416.
1973 Ed., § 45-918.

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District of Columbia Code

Title 42 - Real Property

Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant

§ 42–3201. When notice to quit not necessary

§ 42–3202. Notices to quit

§ 42–3203. Tenancy at will

§ 42–3204. Tenancy by sufferance

§ 42–3205. Notice not to be recalled

§ 42–3206. Service of notice to quit

§ 42–3207. Refusal to surrender possession; double rent

§ 42–3208. Parties may agree to alternate notice provisions; waiver

§ 42–3209. Recovery of real and personal property leased together

§ 42–3210. Action in ejectment — When proper

§ 42–3210.01. Disposal of tenant's personal property upon ejectment

§ 42–3211. Action in ejectment — Claims for arrears of rent, double rent, and waste; jurisdiction of court; money judgment

§ 42–3212. Consolidation of actions for arrears of rent and possession

§ 42–3213. Landlord’s lien for rent — Time of existence

§ 42–3214. Landlord’s lien for rent — How enforced

§ 42–3215. Landlord’s lien for rent — When attachment issuable; executing officer’s power of entry

§ 42–3216. Landlord’s lien for rent — Property subject to lien not to be executed on by another without payment of rent due; when rent in arrears exceeds 3 months

§ 42–3217. Distress not unlawful and party making it not trespasser ab initio because of irregularity; special damages recoverable; costs; tender of amends defeats recovery

§ 42–3218. Fraudulent removal, conveyance, or concealment of property to defeat lien subjects guilty party to forfeiture of double value of such property

§ 42–3219. Representatives of life tenant may recover proportion of rent from under-tenant

§ 42–3220. Action in debt may be brought for rent in arrears under lease or demise for life

§ 42–3221. Action by landlord for use and occupation of property where no deed; parol agreement as evidence of quantum of damages

§ 42–3222. Lease under control of a person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order

§ 42–3223. Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Lease pursuant to provisions of § 42-3222 valid

§ 42–3224. Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Money received for renewal paid to guardian for benefit of person with a disability; characterization of money at death of person with a disability

§ 42–3225. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order

§ 42–3226. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Costs of renewal chargeable to estate of infant or person with a disability or deemed charge upon leasehold

§ 42–3227. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — New leases to be of same nature and subject to same liabilities as surrendered leases

§ 42–3228. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Renewed lease valid

§ 42–3229. Surrender for new lease good without surrender of underleases; underleases continue unaffected; all rights and remedies to continue

§ 42–3230. Grant or assignment of reversion of premises or by lessee not to affect rights or duties under lease

§ 42–3231. Grants of remainders, reversions, and rents good without attornment; payment of rent to grantor without notice valid

§ 42–3232. Fraudulent attornment void; possession not changed by such attornment; limitation on scope of provisions