§101-5 - Fee simple or lesser estate may be acquired.

§101-5  Fee simple or lesser estate may beacquired.  In the taking of private property for a public use, a fee simpleestate or any lesser estate may be acquired. [L 1896, c 45, §2; RL 1925, §810;RL 1935, §52; RL 1945, §303; am L 1951, c 12, §1(d); RL 1955, §8-5; HRS §101-5]

Case Notes

  Condemning a fee simple estate subject to existing tenancy. 42 H. 415.

  Undivided interests in parcels of land owned in fee simpleare fee simple estates and may be taken in eminent domain proceedings.  50 H.501, 443 P.2d 140.