2021 District of Columbia Code
Title 42 - Real Property
Chapter 5 - Estates in Land
§ 42–509. Reversions

Universal Citation: DC Code § 42–509 (2021)

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.

(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1351, ch. 854, § 1019.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 45-209.

1973 Ed., § 45-809.

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