{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-16-1157","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 16-1157","heading":"Preservation of life tenants’ rights if living at time of return.","body":"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:\n\n(1)\nhe 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;\n\n(2)\nhe can not procure or compel him so to appear; and\n\n(3)\nthe tenant for life is or was living at the time of the return made and filed, as prescribed by this subchapter —","path":["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."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/16-1157","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"a321f2a1accabce76baf950985a828aa18c92b82a2d89ee13af7631d277abd04","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-16-1156","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-16-1158"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}