Any joint tenant or tenant in common may maintain an action for waste committed by his cotenant, or in a suit for a partition, or a sale for purpose of partition may have said waste charged against the share of the cotenant committing the same.
D.C. Code § 42-1604
Joint tenant or tenant in common against cotenant
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1433, ch. 854, § 1622
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