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HRS §667-9

When a sale ends a wife's dower claim

This section says when a mortgage is sold, a wife's old right to dower is ended if she had no lawful wife at the time or if she joined the mortgage deed to give up her dower. The sale then blocks any dower claim.

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The statute, as written — Dower barred, when

If the mortgage was executed by a man having at the time no lawful wife, or if the mortgagor being married, his wife joined in the deed in token of her release of dower, the sale of the property in the mode aforesaid shall be effectual to bar all claim and possibility of dower in the property.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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