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2021 District of Columbia Code
Title 42 - Real Property
Chapter 5 - Estates in Land
§ 42–520. Estates by sufferance
Universal Citation: DC Code § 42–520 (2021)
All estates which by construction of the courts were estates from year to year at common law, as where a tenant goes into possession and pays rent without an agreement for a term, or where a tenant for years, after the expiration of his term, continues in possession and pays rent and the like, and all verbal hirings by the month or at any specified rate per month, shall be deemed estates by sufferance.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1352, ch. 854, § 1034; June 30, 1902, 32 Stat. 538, ch. 1329.)
Prior Codifications1981 Ed., § 45-220.
1973 Ed., § 45-820.
Cross ReferencesStatute of frauds, see §§ 28-3501 and 28-3503.
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