Recovery of damages from usurper; limitation

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Particular Actions, Proceedings and Matters. [Enacted title]
4. Quo Warranto
5. Procedures and Judgments
6. Recovery of damages from usurper; limitation

At any time within a year from a judgment in a quo warranto proceeding, the relator may bring an action against the party ousted and recover the damages sustained by the relator by reason of the ousted party’s usurpation of the office to which the relator was entitled.

(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 603, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1; July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 564, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 145(n).)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 16-3548.

1973 Ed., § 16-3548.

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