6-302 FORCIBLE DETAINER DEFINED. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 6

ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES

CHAPTER 3

FORCIBLE ENTRY AND UNLAWFUL DETAINER

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.