District of Columbia Code
Title 42 - Real Property
Chapter 5 - Estates in Land

§ 42–501. Recognized estates - Estates in land in the District shall be estates of...

§ 42–502. Fee simple estates — Estates tail abolished - All estates of inheritance, including such as were formerly estates...

§ 42–503. Fee simple estates — Absolute or qualified - An estate in fee simple may be either absolute or...

§ 42–504. Freeholds; chattels real; chattel interests; conditions precedent or subsequent - Estates of inheritance and estates for life shall continue to...

§ 42–505. Estates pur autre vie; when deemed freehold and when chattel real - An estate for the life of a third person, whether...

§ 42–506. Estates classified; possession; expectancy - Estates are either in possession or in expectancy. (Mar. 3,...

§ 42–507. Estate in possession - An estate in possession exists when the owner has an...

§ 42–508. Estate in expectancy - An estate in expectancy is either a reversion or a...

§ 42–509. Reversions - A reversion is the residue of an estate left in...

§ 42–510. Future estates — Commencement - A future estate is one limited to commence at a...

§ 42–511. Future estates — Remainder and conditional limitation - If it is to commence upon the full expiration of...

§ 42–512. Future estates — Vested and contingent - A future estate is vested when there is a person...

§ 42–513. Future estates — Alternative - Two or more future estates may be created to take...

§ 42–514. Expectant estates — No defeat or bar unless provided for at creation - No expectant estate can be defeated or barred by any...

§ 42–515. Expectant estates — Descendible, devisable, and alienable - Expectant estates shall be descendible, devisable, and alienable in the...

§ 42–516. Tenancies in common, tenancies by the entireties, and joint tenancies - (a) Every estate granted or devised to 2 or more...

§ 42–517. Coparcenary estates abolished - There shall be no estate in coparcenary in the District,...

§ 42–518. Estates for years - An estate for a determined period of time is an...

§ 42–519. Estates from year to year - An estate expressed to be from year to year shall...

§ 42–520. Estates by sufferance - All estates which by construction of the courts were estates...

§ 42–521. Estates from month to month or from quarter to quarter - An estate may be from month to month or from...

§ 42–522. Estates at will; termination; creation - An estate at will is one held by the joint...

§ 42–523. Provisions applicable to personal property - All the provisions of this chapter and of §§ 42-302...