No expectant estate can be defeated or barred by any alienation or other act of the owner of the intermediate or precedent estate, nor by any destruction of such precedent estate, by disseizin, forfeiture, surrender, merger, or otherwise, except when such destruction is expressly provided for or authorized in the creation of such expectant estate; nor shall an expectant estate thus liable to be defeated be on that ground adjudged void in its creation.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1352, ch. 854, § 1029.)
1981 Ed., § 45-214.
1973 Ed., § 45-814.
Structure District of Columbia Code
§ 42–502. Fee simple estates — Estates tail abolished
§ 42–503. Fee simple estates — Absolute or qualified
§ 42–504. Freeholds; chattels real; chattel interests; conditions precedent or subsequent
§ 42–505. Estates pur autre vie; when deemed freehold and when chattel real
§ 42–506. Estates classified; possession; expectancy
§ 42–507. Estate in possession
§ 42–508. Estate in expectancy
§ 42–510. Future estates — Commencement
§ 42–511. Future estates — Remainder and conditional limitation
§ 42–512. Future estates — Vested and contingent
§ 42–513. Future estates — Alternative
§ 42–514. Expectant estates — No defeat or bar unless provided for at creation
§ 42–515. Expectant estates — Descendible, devisable, and alienable
§ 42–516. Tenancies in common, tenancies by the entireties, and joint tenancies
§ 42–517. Coparcenary estates abolished
§ 42–519. Estates from year to year
§ 42–520. Estates by sufferance
§ 42–521. Estates from month to month or from quarter to quarter