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[84 STAT. 485]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1970
[84 STAT. 485]

84 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 91-358-JULY 29, 1970

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" (E) chapter 13 of title 21 (relating to appointment of com- l^J'^^-J^^i^. mittees for alcoholics and addicts); i3oi D.C. Code 21" (F) chapter 15 of title 21 (relating to appointment of con- 1501. servators); or D.C. Code 21" (G) chapter 3, 7, 11, 13, or 15 of title 21 in the United States 301 to 21-1301. District Court for the District of Columbia and not completed in that court before the expiration of such eighteen-month period. "(5) Immediately following the expiration of the thirty-month l)eriod beginning on such effective date, the court has jurisdiction (regardless of the amount in controversy)— " (A) of any matter (at law or in equity)— Post, p. 5 6 1. "(i) brought under chapter 29 of title 16 (relating to partition of property and assignment of dower); "(ii) which would have been within the jurisdiction of the Orphans Court of Washington County, District of Columbia, before June 21, 1870; " (iii) relating to the execution or validity of wills devising real property within the District of Columbia, and of wills and testaments properly presented for probate in the court, and the admission to probate and recording of those wills; "(iv) relating to the proof of wills of either personal or real property and the revocation of probate of wills for cause; "(v) involving the granting and revocation for cause of letters testamentary, letters of administration, letters ad colligendum and letters of guardianship, and the appointment of successors to persons whose letters have been revoked; "(vi) involving the hearing, examination, and issuance of decrees upon accounts, claims, and demands existing between executors or administrators and legatees or persons entitled to a distributive share of an intestate estate, or between wards and their guardians; "(vii) involving the enforcement of the rendition of inventories and accounts by executors, administrators, collectors, guardians, and trustees required to account to the court; " (viii) involving the enforcement of distribution of estates by executors and administrators and the payment or delivery by guardians of money or property belonging to their wards; or "(ix) otherwise within the probate jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on the day before such effective date; and " (B) any matter (at law or in equity) described in subparagraph (A) which was begun in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and not completed in that court before the expiration of such thirty-month period. "(6) Immediately following the expiration of the thirty-month period beginning on such effective date, the court has jurisdiction (regardless of the amount in controversy) of any civil action or other matter, at law or in equity, brought in die District of Columbia. "(b) The Superior Court does not have jurisdiction over any civil action or other matter (1) over which exclusive jurisdiction is vested in a Federal court in the District of Columbia, or (2) over which jurisdiction is vested in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under section 11-501 (relating to civil actions or ^"'e, p. 476 other matters begun in such court before the expiration of the thirtymon<^h period beginning on the effective date of the District of Columbia Court Reorganization Act of 1970).