A judgment or money decree may be assigned in writing, and upon the assignment thereof being filed in the clerk’s office the assignee may maintain an action or sue out an execution on the judgment in his own name, as the original plaintiff might have done.
D.C. Code § 28-2301
Assignment of judgment or money decree
Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 669, Pub
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