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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-37

  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgaged property: means the property that is subject to the lien of the mortgage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Property: means property (real, personal, or mixed), an interest in property (including fee simple, leasehold, life estate, reversionary interest, and any other estate under applicable law), or other interests that can be subject to the lien of a mortgage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1

This part shall not prohibit the foreclosing mortgagee, or any other creditor having a recorded lien on the mortgaged property before the recordation of the notice of default under § 667-23, from filing an action for the judicial foreclosure of the mortgaged property in the circuit court of the circuit where the mortgaged property is located; provided that the action is filed before the public sale is held.