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HRS §666-1

Getting your property back after a lease ends

This section says that if a tenant or someone under them stays on the property without permission after the lease ends or is broken, the person who owns the property can use a special legal process to get it back. It also covers tenants without a written lease who get at least ten days' notice to leave.

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The statute, as written — Summary possession on termination or forfeiture of lease

Whenever any lessee or tenant of any lands or tenements, or any person holding under the lessee or tenant, holds possession of lands or tenements without right, after the termination of the tenancy, either by passage of time or by reason of any forfeiture, under the conditions or covenants in a lease, or, if a tenant by parol, by a notice to quit of at least ten days, the person entitled to the premises may be restored to the possession thereof in [the] manner hereinafter provided. [CC 1859, §939; am L 1864, p 14; RL 1925, §2778; RL 1935, §4013; RL 1945, §10401; RL 1955, §240-1; HRS §666-1; am L 1972, c 90, §8(a)]
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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