If a tenant, on whom a complaint in ejectment is served, fails to give notice thereof, without delay, to his landlord or the agent of the landlord, he shall forfeit and pay to the landlord the value of three years’ full rent of the premises, to be recovered by a civil action.
D.C. Code § 16-1102
Failure of tenant to give notice to landlord
Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 564, Pub
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