§ 42-520Title 42
Estates by sufferance.
All estates which by construction of the courts were estates from year to year at common law, as where a tenant goes into possession and pays rent without an agreement for a term, or where a tenant for years, after the expiration of his term, continues in possession and pays rent and the like, and all verbal hirings by the month or at any specified rate per month, shall be deemed estates by sufferance.
Annotations
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1352, ch. 854, § 1034 June 30, 1902, 32 Stat. 538, ch. 1329 1973 Ed., § 45-820. 1981 Ed., § 45-220. Statute of frauds, see §§ 28-3501 and 28-3503.
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