Estates of inheritance and estates for life shall continue to be denominated freeholds, and estates for years shall be chattels real; estates at will or by sufferance shall be chattel interests, but shall not be liable, as such, to sale under execution; and all estates may be subject to conditions precedent or subsequent.
D.C. Code § 42-504
Freeholds; chattels real; chattel interests; conditions precedent or subsequent
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1351, ch. 854, § 1014
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