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D.C. Code § 16-1156: Recovery of profits by person evicted.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 16. Particular Actions, Proceedings and Matters. [Enacted title]
- Chapter 11. Ejectment and Other Real Property Actions.
- Subchapter II. Proceedings to Discover the Death of a Tenant for Life.
A person evicted, as prescribed by this subchapter, may, when the presumption upon which he is evicted is erroneous, maintain a civil action against the person who has occupied the property, or his executor or administrator, to recover the full profits of the property during the occupation, while the person, upon whose life the prior estate depends, is or was living.
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