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Code of the District of Columbia
Title 42
Chapter 32
Landlord and Tenant.
42-3201
When notice to quit not necessary.
42-3202
Notices to quit.
42-3203
Tenancy at will.
42-3204
Tenancy by sufferance.
42-3205
Notice not to be recalled.
42-3206
Service of notice to quit.
42-3207
Refusal to surrender possession; double rent.
42-3208
Parties may agree to alternate notice provisions; waiver.
42-3209
Recovery of real and personal property leased together.
42-3210
Action in ejectment — When proper.
42-3210.01
Disposal of tenant's personal property upon ejectment.
42-3211
Action in ejectment — Claims for arrears of rent, double rent, and waste; jurisdiction of court; money judgment.
42-3212
Consolidation of actions for arrears of rent and possession.
42-3213
Landlord’s lien for rent — Time of existence.
42-3214
Landlord’s lien for rent — How enforced.
42-3215
Landlord’s lien for rent — When attachment issuable; executing officer’s power of entry.
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.
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.
42-3218
Fraudulent removal, conveyance, or concealment of property to defeat lien subjects guilty party to forfeiture of double value of such property.
42-3219
Representatives of life tenant may recover proportion of rent from under-tenant.
42-3220
Action in debt may be brought for rent in arrears under lease or demise for life.
42-3221
Action by landlord for use and occupation of property where no deed; parol agreement as evidence of quantum of damages.
42-3222
Lease under control of a person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order.
42-3223
Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Lease pursuant to provisions of § 42-3222 valid.
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.
42-3225
Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order.
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.
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.
42-3228
Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Renewed lease valid.
42-3229
Surrender for new lease good without surrender of underleases; underleases continue unaffected; all rights and remedies to continue.
42-3230
Grant or assignment of reversion of premises or by lessee not to affect rights or duties under lease.
42-3231
Grants of remainders, reversions, and rents good without attornment; payment of rent to grantor without notice valid.
42-3232
Fraudulent attornment void; possession not changed by such attornment; limitation on scope of provisions.