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Code of the District of Columbia
Title 42
Chapter 5
Estates in Land.
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42-501
Recognized estates.
42-502
Fee simple estates — Estates tail abolished.
42-503
Fee simple estates — Absolute or qualified.
42-504
Freeholds; chattels real; chattel interests; conditions precedent or subsequent.
42-505
Estates pur autre vie; when deemed freehold and when chattel real.
42-506
Estates classified; possession; expectancy.
42-507
Estate in possession.
42-508
Estate in expectancy.
42-509
Reversions.
42-510
Future estates — Commencement.
42-511
Future estates — Remainder and conditional limitation.
42-512
Future estates — Vested and contingent.
42-513
Future estates — Alternative.
42-514
Expectant estates — No defeat or bar unless provided for at creation.
42-515
Expectant estates — Descendible, devisable, and alienable.
42-516
Tenancies in common, tenancies by the entireties, and joint tenancies.
42-517
Coparcenary estates abolished.
42-518
Estates for years.
42-519
Estates from year to year.
42-520
Estates by sufferance.
42-521
Estates from month to month or from quarter to quarter.
42-522
Estates at will; termination; creation.
42-523
Provisions applicable to personal property.