District of Columbia Code
Title 42 - Real Property
Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant

§ 42–3201. When notice to quit not necessary - When real estate is leased for a certain term no...

§ 42–3202. Notices to quit - (a) A commercial tenancy from month-to-month, or from quarter–to-quarter, may...

§ 42–3203. Tenancy at will - A tenancy at will may be terminated by 30 days...

§ 42–3204. Tenancy by sufferance - A tenancy by sufferance may be terminated at any time...

§ 42–3205. Notice not to be recalled - Neither landlord nor tenant, after giving notice as aforesaid, shall...

§ 42–3206. Service of notice to quit - Every notice to the tenant to quit shall be served...

§ 42–3207. Refusal to surrender possession; double rent - If the tenant, after having given notice of his intention...

§ 42–3208. Parties may agree to alternate notice provisions; waiver - Nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the parties...

§ 42–3209. Recovery of real and personal property leased together - Whenever real and personal property are leased together, as, for...

§ 42–3210. Action in ejectment — When proper - Whenever a lease for any definite term shall expire, or...

§ 42–3210.01. Disposal of tenant's personal property upon ejectment - (a) At the time of an ejectment not subject to...

§ 42–3211. Action in ejectment — Claims for arrears of rent, double rent, and waste; jurisdiction of court; money judgment - In either case the landlord may join with his claim...

§ 42–3212. Consolidation of actions for arrears of rent and possession - If actions be brought separately for arrears of rent and...

§ 42–3213. Landlord’s lien for rent — Time of existence - The landlord shall have a tacit lien for his rent...

§ 42–3214. Landlord’s lien for rent — How enforced - The said lien may be enforced: (1) By attachment, to...

§ 42–3215. Landlord’s lien for rent — When attachment issuable; executing officer’s power of entry - Such attachment may be issued in any action for the...

§ 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...

§ 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 - Where any distress shall be made for any kind of...

§ 42–3218. Fraudulent removal, conveyance, or concealment of property to defeat lien subjects guilty party to forfeiture of double value of such property - If any tenant or lessee shall fraudulently remove and convey...

§ 42–3219. Representatives of life tenant may recover proportion of rent from under-tenant - Where any tenants for life shall happen to die before...

§ 42–3220. Action in debt may be brought for rent in arrears under lease or demise for life - It shall and may be lawful for any person or...

§ 42–3221. Action by landlord for use and occupation of property where no deed; parol agreement as evidence of quantum of damages - It shall and may be lawful to and for the...

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

§ 42–3223. Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Lease pursuant to provisions of § 42-3222 valid - All and every such lease or leases so to be...

§ 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 - All fines, premiums, foregifts, and sums of money, which shall...

§ 42–3225. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order - In all cases where any person under the age of...

§ 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 - All and every sum and sums of money and other...

§ 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 - The respective leases to be so renewed, shall operate, and...

§ 42–3228. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Renewed lease valid - Every such surrender, and such lease or leases granted thereupon,...

§ 42–3229. Surrender for new lease good without surrender of underleases; underleases continue unaffected; all rights and remedies to continue - In case any lease shall be duly surrendered, in order...

§ 42–3230. Grant or assignment of reversion of premises or by lessee not to affect rights or duties under lease - The grantee or assignee of the reversion of any leased...

§ 42–3231. Grants of remainders, reversions, and rents good without attornment; payment of rent to grantor without notice valid - All grants or conveyances of any manors or rents, or...

§ 42–3232. Fraudulent attornment void; possession not changed by such attornment; limitation on scope of provisions - All and every fraudulent attornment and attornments of any tenant...