---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1508"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1508"
heading: "Application to District of Columbia"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1508"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Alien Owners of Land"
---

# §1508. Application to District of Columbia


Aliens shall have the same rights and privileges concerning the acquisition, holding, owning, and disposition of real estate in the District of Columbia as are conferred upon aliens in respect of real estate in the Territories of the United States by this chapter.


## Source credit

(Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, § 1, 33 Stat. 733.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 78 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.

Section was not enacted as part of act Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 340, 24 Stat. 476, which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeals

Act Feb. 23, 1905, ch. 733, § 2, 33 Stat. 733, repealed all laws and parts of laws so far as they conflict with the provisions of this section.