District of Columbia § 16-1157 Preservation of life tenants’ rights if living at time of return.

District of Columbia Statutes

§ 16-1157 — Preservation of life tenants’ rights if living at time of return.

District of Columbia § 16-1157

Title 16Particular Actions, Proceedings and Matters. [Enacted title]

Ch. 11Ejectment and Other Real Property Actions.

Subch. IIProceedings to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life.

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D.C. Code § 16-1157 (2026).

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When a guardian, trustee, or other person holding an estate or interest determinable upon the life of another person, shows by affidavit or otherwise to the satisfaction of the court, that:

(1)he has used his utmost efforts to procure the tenant for life to appear in the court or elsewhere, according to the order of the court;

(2)he can not procure or compel him so to appear; and

(3)the tenant for life is or was living at the time of the return made and filed, as prescribed by this subchapter —

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When a guardian, trustee, or other person holding an estate or interest determinable upon the life of another person, shows by affidavit or otherwise to the satisfaction of the court, that:

(1) he has used his utmost efforts to procure the tenant for life to appear in the court or elsewhere, according to the order of the court;

(2) he can not procure or compel him so to appear; and

(3) the tenant for life is or was living at the time of the return made and filed, as prescribed by this subchapter —