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HRS §501-138

Recording Lien Changes on Registered Land

This section says that liens on registered land are handled the same way as liens on unregistered land. Any paperwork needed to continue, reduce, discharge, or dissolve a lien must be filed with the assistant registrar for registered land.

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The statute, as written — Discharge or modification of liens to be recorded

Attachments on mesne process and liens of every description upon registered land shall be continued, reduced, discharged, and dissolved by any method sufficient in law to continue, reduce, discharge, or dissolve like liens on unregistered land. All certificates or other instruments which are permitted or required by law to be recorded in the bureau of conveyances to give effect to the continuance, reduction, discharge, or dissolution of attachments or other liens upon unregistered lands, or to give notice of such continuance, reduction, discharge, or dissolution, shall in the case of like liens upon registered land be filed and registered with the assistant registrar.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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