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- D.C. Code § 42-301 · Present or future and vested or contingent interests conveyed by deed or will.
- D.C. Code § 42-302 · Perpetuities — Charitable uses excepted.
- D.C. Code § 42-303 · Perpetuities—Chattels real.
- D.C. Code § 42-304 · Perpetuities—Effect upon estates created by deed or will.
- D.C. Code § 42-305 · Title conveyable by anyone claiming such.
- D.C. Code § 42-306 · Deed or will necessary for more than one-year term or for limitation upon such.
- D.C. Code § 42-307 · Perpetuities; pensions and employee trusts excepted.
- D.C. Code § 42-401 · Effective date of deeds; exception.
- D.C. Code § 42-402 · Defective grants recorded before April 27, 1994.
- D.C. Code § 42-403 · Defective grants recorded on or after the effective date of the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts Amendment Act of 2022.
- D.C. Code § 42-404 · Failures in formal requisites of an instrument.
- D.C. Code § 42-405 · Notice of address and name change.
- D.C. Code § 42-406 · First recorded deed preferred.
- D.C. Code § 42-407 · Instrument not properly executed or acknowledged not recordable.
- D.C. Code § 42-408 · Record of conveyance by infant or infant trustee as evidence.
- D.C. Code § 42-409 · Bonds and contracts relating to land recordable.
- D.C. Code § 42-410 · Map or plat of subdivisions not recordable.
- D.C. Code § 42-501 · Recognized estates.
- D.C. Code § 42-502 · Fee simple estates — Estates tail abolished.
- D.C. Code § 42-503 · Fee simple estates — Absolute or qualified.
- D.C. Code § 42-504 · Freeholds; chattels real; chattel interests; conditions precedent or subsequent.
- D.C. Code § 42-505 · Estates pur autre vie; when deemed freehold and when chattel real.
- D.C. Code § 42-506 · Estates classified; possession; expectancy.
- D.C. Code § 42-507 · Estate in possession.
- D.C. Code § 42-508 · Estate in expectancy.
- D.C. Code § 42-509 · Reversions.
- D.C. Code § 42-510 · Future estates — Commencement.
- D.C. Code § 42-511 · Future estates — Remainder and conditional limitation.
- D.C. Code § 42-512 · Future estates — Vested and contingent.
- D.C. Code § 42-513 · Future estates — Alternative.
- D.C. Code § 42-514 · Expectant estates — No defeat or bar unless provided for at creation.
- D.C. Code § 42-515 · Expectant estates — Descendible, devisable, and alienable.
- D.C. Code § 42-516 · Tenancies in common, tenancies by the entireties, and joint tenancies.
- D.C. Code § 42-517 · Coparcenary estates abolished.
- D.C. Code § 42-518 · Estates for years.
- D.C. Code § 42-519 · Estates from year to year.
- D.C. Code § 42-520 · Estates by sufferance.
- D.C. Code § 42-521 · Estates from month to month or from quarter to quarter.
- D.C. Code § 42-522 · Estates at will; termination; creation.
- D.C. Code § 42-523 · Provisions applicable to personal property.
- D.C. Code § 42-601 · Deed, mortgage, and lease forms.
- D.C. Code § 42-602 · Deeds of corporations; formal requisites; acknowledgment.
- D.C. Code § 42-603 · “Covenant” binds covenantor, covenantee, and their privies.
- D.C. Code § 42-604 · General warranty.
- D.C. Code § 42-605 · Special warranty.
- D.C. Code § 42-606 · Covenant of quiet enjoyment.
- D.C. Code § 42-607 · Covenant against having encumbered land.
- D.C. Code § 42-608 · Covenant for further assurances; contracts to contain soil characteristics information.
- D.C. Code § 42-609 · Warranties void as to heirs; life tenants and certain parties not in possession.
- D.C. Code § 42-701 · Words of inheritance unnecessary.
- D.C. Code § 42-702 · “Grant” or “bargain and sell” passes whole estate and interest.
- D.C. Code § 42-703 · Remainder to heirs of life tenant; rule in Shelley’s case abolished.
- D.C. Code § 42-704 · Posthumous children.
- D.C. Code § 42-705 · Construction of words importing want or failure of issue.
- D.C. Code § 42-801 · Execution, acknowledgment, and recordation in same manner as deeds.
- D.C. Code § 42-802 · Duty of Recorder.
- D.C. Code § 42-803 · Estate of mortgagee or trustee; conveyance thereof.
- D.C. Code § 42-804 · Survival of mortgagee’s or trustee’s title.
- D.C. Code § 42-805 · While action pending, money due payable to mortgagee or court; effect thereof.
- D.C. Code § 42-806 · Decree or order without hearing where defendant files request and plaintiff files admission.
- D.C. Code § 42-807 · Limitations upon right of redemption in §§ 42-805 and 42-806.
- D.C. Code § 42-808 · Conveyance or assurance by infant following court order.
- D.C. Code § 42-809 · Conveyance or assurance by infant trustee or mortgagee under court order.
- D.C. Code § 42-810 · Mortgagee may redeem prior mortgage; prior mortgage may not bar.
- D.C. Code § 42-811 · Appointment of trustee in event of death of mortgagee or trustee; procedure; summary decree.
- D.C. Code § 42-812 · Equity practice followed where answer sets up defense against foreclosure.
- D.C. Code § 42-813 · Replacement of deceased, appointed trustee.
- D.C. Code § 42-814 · Petition for new trustee; causes; procedure; written agreement of parties.
- D.C. Code § 42-815 · Application to court to fix terms and determine notice of sale; notice under power of sale provision.
- D.C. Code § 42-815.01 · Right to cure residential mortgage foreclosure default.
- D.C. Code § 42-815.02 · Foreclosure mediation.
- D.C. Code § 42-815.03 · Establishment of Foreclosure Mediation Fund.
- D.C. Code § 42-815.04 · Construction.
- D.C. Code § 42-815.05 · Requirement for deed before action against current occupant of foreclosed property.
- D.C. Code § 42-816 · Sale of property — Deficiency judgments; limitations thereon; relief in suit to enforce vendor’s lien.
- D.C. Code § 42-817 · Sale of property — Amount creditor to pay if purchaser.
- D.C. Code § 42-818 · Commission to mortgagee or trustee; rates; when advertised sale not held.
- D.C. Code § 42-818.01 · Tracking addresses.
- D.C. Code § 42-818.02 · Procedures for release of deed of trust.
- D.C. Code § 42-819 · Petition for deed of release after death of mortgagee or trustee; procedure; summary determination.
- D.C. Code § 42-820 · Conveyance by and for individuals with mental disabilities following court order.
- D.C. Code § 42-831.01 · Definitions.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.01 · General.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.02 · Creation; statement of monetary value; other obligations secured.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.03 · Lien instrument creates security interest only; negative covenant does not create a lien instrument.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.04 · Parties to a lien instrument and addresses.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.05 · Information form required in every deed of trust or mortgage encumbering residential real property.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.06 · Execution, acknowledgment and recordation of a lien instrument in the same manner as a deed.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.07 · Duty of Recorder of Deeds.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.08 · Assignment, transfer, enforcement and performance of deed of trust or mortgage.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.09 · Assignment or transfer of real property encumbered by lien instrument and liability of transferor and transferee to noteowner and each other.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.10 · Obligation to provide name and address of noteowner, interested persons in note, amounts due and status of lien instrument.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.11 · Decisions by multiple noteowners.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.12 · Independent trustee or assignee for foreclosure required for noteowner, beneficiary, mortgagee, or secured party to bid at a power of sale foreclosure.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.13 · Right to determine reasonable foreclosure sale terms and conditions if deed of trust or mortgage does not state them.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.14 · Deed-in-lieu of foreclosure or deed to noteowner’s designee; no effect on senior or subordinate interests.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.15 · Redemption from noteowner by performance or tender.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.16 · Prepayment of note secured by lien instrument.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.17 · Release of lien instrument after time period when no enforcement.
- D.C. Code § 42-832.18 · Authorized forms of release of lien instrument.