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2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 7.48.170: Successive owners liable.

    Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of such property caused by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it.

    [Code 1881 § 1239; 1875 p 79 § 5; RRS § 9917.]

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