RCW 7.48.170
Successive owners liable.
Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of such property caused by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it.
[Code 1881 § 1239; 1875 p 79 § 5; RRS § 9917.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 7 - Special Proceedings and Actions
7.48.010 - Actionable nuisance defined.
7.48.020 - Who may sue—Judgment for damages—Warrant for abatement—Injunction.
7.48.030 - Issuance and execution of warrant.
7.48.040 - Stay of issuance of warrant.
7.48.050 - Moral nuisances—Definitions.
7.48.054 - Moral nuisance—Personal property—Effects of notice.
7.48.056 - Abate moral nuisance—Enjoin owner.
7.48.058 - Maintaining action to abate moral nuisance—Bond.
7.48.060 - Moral nuisance—Jurisdiction—Filing a complaint.
7.48.062 - Moral nuisance—Restraining order—Violations.
7.48.064 - Moral nuisance—Hearing—Notice—Consolidation with trial.
7.48.066 - Finding of moral nuisance—Orders.
7.48.068 - Abatement of moral nuisance by owner—Effect on injunction.
7.48.070 - Moral nuisance—Priority of action on calendar.
7.48.072 - Moral nuisance—Effects of admission or finding of guilt.
7.48.074 - Moral nuisance—Evidence of reputation—Admissibility.
7.48.076 - Moral nuisance—Trial—Costs—Dismissal—Judgment.
7.48.078 - Moral nuisance—Judgment—Penalties—Disposal of personal property.
7.48.080 - Moral nuisance—Violation of injunction—Contempt of court.
7.48.085 - Moral nuisance—Property owner may repossess.
7.48.090 - Moral nuisance—Contraband—Forfeitures.
7.48.100 - Moral nuisance—Immunity of certain motion picture theater employees.
7.48.110 - Houses of lewdness, assignation or prostitution may be abated—Voluntary abatement.
7.48.130 - Public nuisance defined.
7.48.140 - Public nuisances enumerated.
7.48.150 - Private nuisance defined.
7.48.155 - Unlawful use of firearm or deadly weapon—Arrest required.
7.48.160 - Authorized act not a nuisance.
7.48.170 - Successive owners liable.
7.48.180 - Abatement does not preclude action for damages.
7.48.190 - Nuisance does not become legal by prescription.
7.48.210 - Civil action, who may maintain.
7.48.220 - Abatement, by whom.
7.48.230 - Public nuisance—Abatement.
7.48.240 - Certain places of resort declared nuisances.
7.48.260 - Warrant of abatement.
7.48.280 - Costs of abatement.
7.48.300 - Agricultural activities and forest practices—Legislative finding and purpose.
7.48.310 - Agricultural activities and forest practices—Definitions.
7.48.315 - Agricultural activities and forest practices—Recovering lawsuit costs—Farmers.