Section 42-1604 - Joint tenant or tenant in common against cotenant

Joint tenant or tenant in common against cotenant

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.

CREDIT(S)

(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1433, ch. 854, § 1622.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 45-1204.
1973 Ed., § 45-1304.

Current through September 13, 2012