Title 42 — Real Property.
57 chapters · 1,018 sections in this title.
D.C. Code § 42-1501 Legal estate in cestui que use; exception
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Where lands, tenements, or hereditaments are conveyed or devised to one person, whether for years or for a freehold estate, to the use of or in trust for another, no estate or interest, legal or equitable, shall vest in the trustee, but the person entitled, according to the true …
D.C. Code § 42-1502 Where several are jointly seized of lands to use of any so seized, latter deemed to have possession and seizin alone
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Where divers and many persons be, or hereafter shall happen to be jointly seized of and in any lands, tenements, rents, reversions, remainders, or other hereditaments, to the use, confidence, or trust of any of them that be so jointly seized, in every such case those person or pe…
D.C. Code § 42-1503 Effect of purchase for value without notice of trust; where express trust not declared in conveyance
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No implied or resulting trust shall be alleged or established to defeat or prejudice the title of a purchaser for a valuable consideration and without notice of such trust; and where an express trust is created, but is not contained or declared in the conveyance to the trustee, s…