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Ark. Code Ann. § 18-60-303

Actions constituting forcible entry and detainer

Acts 1981, No. 615, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 34-1503.

A person shall be guilty of a forcible entry and detainer within the meaning of this subchapter if the person shall:

(1) Enter into or upon any lands, tenements, or other possessions and detain or hold them without right or claim to title;

(2) Enter by breaking open the doors and windows or other parts of the house, whether any person is in it or not;

(3) Threaten to kill, maim, or beat the party in possession or use words and actions as have a natural tendency to excite fear or apprehension of danger;

(4) Put out of doors or carry away the goods of the party in possession; or

(5) Enter peaceably and then turning out by force or frightening by threats or other circumstances of terror the party to yield possession.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.