§ 42–509. Reversions.

DC Code § 42–509 (2019) (N/A)
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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.)

1981 Ed., § 45-209.

1973 Ed., § 45-809.