Skip to main content
INTERNAL PROTOTYPE — NOT LEGAL ADVICE — DO NOT SEND

Ayers v. Landow, 666 A.2d 51 (1995)

Citation
Ayers v. Landow, 666 A.2d 51 (1995)
Parent Document
Ayers v. Landow, 666 A.2d 51 (1995)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1995-10-02

Other Sections in This Document (158)

Full Text

434 chars
The trial judge remarked that the decision in Gantt “has to give me pause,” and that it had almost caused him to rule in the landlord’s favor. Upon further reflection, however, he concluded that “the Gantt case is clearly distinguishable.” He described Gantt as standing for the proposition that “within,” like other legal terms, does not have a single universal meaning. In Gantt, according to the judge, the use of the word “within”