§501-143  Enforcement of lien.  A lien
of any description upon registered land shall be enforced in the same manner as
like liens upon unregistered land.  Whenever registered land is set off or sold
on execution; or taken or sold for taxes or for any assessment; or sold to
enforce a lien for labor or materials, or the lien of a mortgagee or cotenant
arising from a payment of taxes, or for an assessment, or for any costs and
charges incident to any liens, any execution, or copy of the execution, any
officer's return, or any deed, demand, certificate, or affidavit or other
instrument made in the course of proceedings to enforce the liens and required
by law to be recorded in the bureau of conveyances in the case of unregistered
land, shall be filed or recorded and registered with the assistant registrar
and a memorandum made upon the proper certificate of title in each case as an
adverse claim or encumbrance. [L 1903, c 56, §78; RL 1925, §3267; RL 1935,
§5076; RL 1945, §12676; RL 1955, §342-76; HRS §501-143; am L 1986, c 246, §17]