2013 Idaho Statutes
Title 6 - ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES
Chapter 3 - FORCIBLE ENTRY AND UNLAWFUL DETAINER
Section 6-302 - FORCIBLE DETAINER DEFINED.


ID Code § 6-302 (2013) What's This?

6-302. Forcible detainer defined. Every person is guilty of a forcible detainer who either:

1. By force, or by menaces and threats of violence, unlawfully holds and keeps possession of any real property, whether the same was acquired peacefully or otherwise; or,

2. Who, in the nighttime, or during the absence of the occupant of any lands, unlawfully enters upon real property, and who, after demand made for the surrender thereof, for the period of five (5) days, refuses to surrender the same to such former occupant. The occupant of real property, within the meaning of this subdivision, is one who, within five (5) days preceding such unlawful entry, was in the peaceable and undisturbed possession of such lands.


History:

[(6-302) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 796; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 5092; C.S., sec. 7321; I.C.A., sec. 9-302.]

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