District of Columbia Statutes
§ 42-509 — Reversions.
District of Columbia § 42-509
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Bluebook
D.C. Code § 42-509 (2026).
Text
A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor who has conveyed, or in the heirs of the devisor who has devised a particular estate less than his own, and which residue returns to his or their possession on the expiration of the particular estate.
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Legislative History
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1351, ch. 854, § 1019
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