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District of Columbia Statutes, Title 42

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Title 42, Real Property.

71 chapters · 806 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 42806 Ch 35, Rental Housing Generally.88 Ch 19, Condominiums.80 Ch 34, Rental Housing Conversion and Sale.67 Ch 27, Housing Finance Agency.39 Ch 32, Landlord and Tenant.33 Ch 20, Horizontal Property Regimes.32 Ch 8, Mortgages and Deeds of Trust.27 Ch 16B, Uniform Commercial Real Estate Recei…27 Ch 5, Estates in Land.23 Ch 10, Powers Relating to Realty.19 Ch 28, Housing Production Trust Fund.19 Ch 31A, Abatement of Nuisance Property.18 Ch 31, Drug-, Firearm-, or Prostitution-Rel…17 Ch 31C, Quick Acquisition of Abandoned and N…16

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D.C. Code § 42-401 Effective date of deeds; exception
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Any deed conveying real property in the District, or interest therein, or declaring or limiting any use or trust thereof, executed and acknowledged and certified as provided in §§ 42-602 and 42-306, and Chapter 12A of Title 1, and delivered to the person in whose favor the same i…
D.C. Code § 42-402 Defective grants recorded before April 27, 1994
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(a) Any instrument recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds before April 27, 1994, shall be effective notwithstanding the existence of 1 or more of the failures in the formal requisites listed in § 42-404, unless the failure was challenged in a judicial proceeding commence…
D.C. Code § 42-403 Defective grants recorded on or after the effective date of the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts Amendment Act of 2022
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Any instrument recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds on or after September 21, 2022 shall be effective notwithstanding the existence of any failures in the formal requisites listed in § 42-404.
D.C. Code § 42-404 Failures in formal requisites of an instrument

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(a) The failures in the formal requisites of an instrument that may be cured by this act are: (1) An omission of an acknowledgment, defective or improper acknowledgment, or any failure to meet a requirement in the taking of an acknowledgment; (2) A failure to attach a clerk’s cer…

D.C. Code § 42-405 Notice of address and name change

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(a) Any owner, as defined under § 47-802(5), of real property entitled to receive notices under Chapter 8 of Title 47 shall notify the Office of Tax and Revenue of a name change or address change within 30 days. (b) Any name change shall be evidenced by the recording of a confirm…

D.C. Code § 42-406 First recorded deed preferred

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When 2 or more deeds of the same property are made to bona fide purchasers for value without notice, the deed or deeds which are first recorded according to law shall be preferred.

D.C. Code § 42-407 Instrument not properly executed or acknowledged not recordable

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The Recorder of Deeds shall not: (1) Accept for recordation any instrument unless the instrument is executed and acknowledged according to law by the person granting or contracting his or her right, title, or interest in the real property; (2) Accept for recordation any deed, as …

D.C. Code § 42-408 Record of conveyance by infant or infant trustee as evidence

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The record or a copy thereof of any deed recorded shall be evidence thereof, in the same manner and shall have the same effect as if such deed had been originally executed, acknowledged, and recorded according to law.

D.C. Code § 42-409 Bonds and contracts relating to land recordable

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Any title bond or other written contract in relation to land may be acknowledged, certified, and recorded in the same manner and with like effect as to notice as deeds for the conveyance of land.

D.C. Code § 42-410 Map or plat of subdivisions not recordable

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It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to record any map or plat of the subdivision of land in the District of Columbia in the office of the Recorder of Deeds for said District, whether such map or plat be attached to a deed or other document or is offered separately fo…