Idaho Code § 6-317

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6-317 TREBLE DAMAGES.

Official statutory text

6-317. Treble damages. If a landlord or a tenant recovers damages for a forcible or unlawful entry in or upon, or detention of, any building or other tract of land, or for an action brought pursuant to section 6-320, Idaho Code, or for an action brought against a tenant or in bad faith pursuant to section 6-310(3), Idaho Code, judgment may be entered for three (3) times the amount at which the actual damages are assessed.

History:

[(6-317) C.C.P. 1881, sec. 475; R.S., R.C., & C.L., sec. 4533; C.S., sec. 6960; I.C.A., sec. 9-317; am. 1977, ch. 45, sec. 2, p. 81; am. 2017, ch. 276, sec. 4, p. 726.]

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