Real property or rent shall not be seized for a debt, as long as the present goods and chattels of the debtor are sufficient to pay it, and the debtor himself is ready to satisfy the debt.
D.C. Code § 15-323
Limitation on seizure of real property
Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 528, Pub
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