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HRS §501-268

Legal incidents of deregistered land

This section says that taking land out of the land registration system does not remove it from normal legal rules. The land and its owners still face the same rights and duties as before, such as family rights, debts, liens, inheritance, partition, eminent domain, bankruptcy, and other laws.

landowners

The statute, as written — Legal incidents of deregistered land

Nothing in this part shall in any way be construed to relieve deregistered land or the owners of deregistered land from: (1) Any rights incident to the relation of husband and wife; (2) Liability to attachment or mesne process or levy on execution; (3) Liability to any lien of any description established by law on the deregistered land, or in the interest of the owner in the deregistered land; (4) The right to change the laws of descent; (5) The rights of partition between coparceners and other cotenants; (6) The right to take the same by eminent domain; (7) Liability to be recovered by a trustee in bankruptcy under the provisions of law relating to preferences; (8) Any other rights or liabilities created by law and applicable to the owner of a condominium apartment that is part of a condominium property regime established on registered land and which is not used in a time share plan, except as otherwise expressly provided in this part; or (9) Any other rights or liabilities created by law and applicable to the deregistered land, except as otherwise expressly provided [in] this part.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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