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R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-18-9 (2026)

Jurisdiction

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The district or appropriate housing court of this state shall exercise jurisdiction in both law and equity over any landlord or tenant with respect to any conduct in this state governed by this chapter or with respect to any claim arising from a transaction subject to this chapter. In addition to any other method provided by rule or by statute, personal jurisdiction over a landlord or tenant may be acquired in a civil action or proceeding commenced in the court by the service of process in the manner provided by § 34-18-10(c).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 12 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1974–2026 · leading case: Russell v. Kalian, 414 A.2d 462 (R.I. 1980).
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Russell v. Kalian, 414 A.2d 462 (R.I. 1980). · cites it 4× “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §§ 34-18-9 and 34-18-9.1 (1979 Supp.) by conditioning its return on the payment of $350 without obtaining court approval that this demand figure represented reasonable and lawful moving expenses.”
Coolbeth v. Berberian, 313 A.2d 656 (R.I. 1974). · cites it 3× “1956 §34-18-9 and they are further enjoined from counseling, advising, or encouraging in any manner whatsoever any landlord or reversioner or their agents in any manner whatever to evict any member of the class herein except by the procedures authorized under G.”
Latina v. Burdick, 320 A.2d 601 (R.I. 1974). · cites it 14× “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §34-18-9, as amended by P. L. 1970, ch. 7, sec.”
Coolbeth v. Berberian, 354 A.2d 120 (R.I. 1976). · cites it 2× “Berberian next claims that the trial justice committed error in adjudging him in contempt, because his self-help eviction of Tamborelli was not within the class of evictions enjoined by the preliminary injunction.”
Turks Head Realty Trust v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc., 736 F. Supp. 422 (D.R.I. 1990). · cites it 2× “2d 120, 123 (1976) (emphasis included) (discussing prior self-help prohibition, See R.I.Gen.Laws § 34-18-9 (1969)). Applying the same broad construction to *429 the commercial lease statute, plaintiff’s conduct violated the self-help provisions relating to commercial leases.”
R.A. Beaufort & Sons, Inc. v. Trivisonno, 403 A.2d 664 (R.I. 1979). “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §34-18-9, as amended by P.L. 1974, ch. 11, §1.”
O'BRIEN v. Town of Westerly Hous. Auth., 626 F. Supp. 1065 (D.R.I. 1986). · cites it 2× “G.L. § 34-18-9(b)(1), in non-payment of rent cases, allows summary proceedings without notice, if the tenant is more than fifteen days in arrears.”
Hous. Auth. of City of Newport v. Massey, 335 A.2d 914 (R.I. 1975). · cites it 6× “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §34-18-9, as amended by P. L. 1974, ch. 11, §1, 1 to recover possession *494 of those premises because the defendant allowed the stipulated rent for the leased premises to remain in arrears for a period of more than 15 days and also because she failed to…”
Lourenco DoCouto v. Blue Water Realty, LLC (R.I. 2024). · cites it 5× “In addition to these statutes, the language provided in G.L. 1956 § 34-18-9, which confers jurisdiction “in both law and equity” upon the District Court with respect to all landlord-tenant matters, and the language of § 8-8-3(a)(2), which provides that the District Court shall…”
MacLure v. Mascaro (In Re MacLure), 50 B.R. 134 (Bankr. D.R.I. 1985). · cites it 2× “LAWS § 34-18-17 and § 34-18-9 to provide landlords with an “orderly and expeditious,” but judicially controlled method for regaining possession of property.”
Fatima Touijer v. Providence Hous. Auth. (R.I. 2026). · cites it 2× “Citing G.L. 1956 § 34-18-9 and G.L. 1956 § 8-8-3(a)(2), they argued that the complaint related to a landlord-tenant relationship and that the 2 Neither the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights nor the Rhode Island Center for Justice is named as a defendant in the complaint.”
Latonya Marzett v. Amanda Letendre, alias (R.I. 2021). “) 2 General Laws 1956 § 34-18-9 provides as follows: “The district or appropriate housing court of this state shall exercise jurisdiction in both law and equity over any landlord or tenant with respect to any conduct in this state governed by this chapter or with respect to any…”
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-18-9(a): 1 case
Russell v. Kalian, 414 A.2d 462 (R.I. 1980). “1956 (1969 Reenactment) §§ 34-18-9 and 34-18-9.1 (1979 Supp.) by conditioning its return on the payment of $350 without obtaining court approval that this demand figure represented reasonable and lawful moving expenses.”
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-18-9(b)(1): 1 case
O'BRIEN v. Town of Westerly Hous. Auth., 626 F. Supp. 1065 (D.R.I. 1986). “G.L. § 34-18-9(b)(1), in non-payment of rent cases, allows summary proceedings without notice, if the tenant is more than fifteen days in arrears.”
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