District Of Columbia Code § 42-402

Defective grants recorded before April 27, 1994.
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Any instrument recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds before April 27, 1994, shall be effective notwithstanding the existence of 1 or more of the failures in the formal requisites listed in § 42-404 , unless the failure was challenged in a judicial proceeding commenced within 6 months from April 27, 1994.
Nothing in this section shall affect the validity of instruments recorded before April 27, 1994, which have been validated by prior law.

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