(a) Upon acquisition of the leased fee interest in residential houselots within all or a portion of a development tract as provided in this part, the property interest acquired by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation is all of the right, title, and interest of the fee owner, and of the lessor and all legal and equitable owners, if any, in and to the residential houselots acquired; subject to existing leases of residential houselots within the development tract, and to all covenants, conditions, easements, reservations, and restrictions of record running with the land or contained in the agreement of sale, deed, or other conveyance held by the fee owner, lessor, and legal and equitable owners or permitted or suffered by lessees of existing residential houselot leases, which are not inconsistent with the intent of this part. The acquisition terminates all the right, title, and interest of the fee owner, lessor, and all legal and equitable owners, whether the interest be a remainder, vested or contingent, a reversion, or other beneficial interest in the property, present or prospective.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 516-25

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Development tract: means a single contiguous area of real property not less than five acres in size which has been developed and subdivided into residential lots, including residential lots which may have been converted to fee simple and streets and roadways developed as an integral part of the development tract. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 516-1
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • leased fee interest: means all of the interests of the fee owner, lessor, and all legal and equitable owners of the land which is leased, other than the lessee's interest as defined by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 516-1
  • legal and equitable owners: include individuals, both masculine and feminine, and, except as to the term "lessee" the terms also include corporations, firms, associations, trusts, estates, and the State or its political subdivisions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 516-1
  • Lessee: means any person to whom land is leased or subleased, and the lessee's heirs, successors, legal representatives, and assigns. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 516-1
  • Lessor: means any person who leases or subleases land to another, and the lessor's heirs, successors, legal representatives, and assigns. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 516-1
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
(b) If the leasehold is subject to any mortgage, lien, or encumbrance suffered or permitted by the lessee, including, but not limited to, rights arising through divorce, marriage, or assignment, the purchase of the leased fee by the lessee shall in no manner affect or impair the mortgage, lien, or encumbrance or the security afforded thereby to the holder thereof, and the leasehold shall continue, notwithstanding the purchase of the leased fee by the lessee, for the purpose and to extent necessary to avoid any impairment of such leasehold security, unless the holder of the leasehold mortgage, lien, or encumbrance shall in writing consent to the transfer thereof to the fee as herein provided. Upon the written consent by the holder thereof, each such mortgage, lien, or encumbrance to which the leasehold is subject and to which such consent refers shall be transferred to and shall bind the fee acquired by the lessee, and shall thereafter continue in full force and effect as a mortgage, lien, or encumbrance of the fee acquired by the lessee, in the same order and priority among such mortgages, liens, and encumbrances so transferred to the fee as the same applied to and bound the lessee’s immediate, previous leasehold interest.

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