D.C. Code § 42-1018
Power to be executed by devise, will, or grant, as directed.
Effective Mar 3, 1901Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1354, ch. 854, § 1054
Where a power to dispose of lands is confined to a disposition by devise or will, the instrument of execution must be a will duly executed; and where a power is confined to a disposition by grant it cannot be executed by will, although the disposition is not intended to take effect until after the death of the party executing the power.
History
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1354, ch. 854, § 1054
Prior Codifications
1973 Ed., § 45-1018.
1981 Ed., § 45-118.