§501-212 Actions for compensation for fraud, mistake, etc. Any person who, without negligence on the person's part, sustains loss or damage, or is deprived of land or of any estate or interest therein, after the original registration of land under this chapter, by the registration of any other person as owner of such land, or of any estate or interest therein, through fraud, or in consequence of any error, omission, mistake, or misdescription in any certificate of title or in any entry of memorandum in the registration book, may prosecute a contract claim in the circuit court for the recovery of compensation for such loss or damage or for such land or estate, or interest therein; provided that when the person deprived of land or of any estate, or interest therein, in the manner above stated, has a remedy for the recovery of the land or of the estate, or interest therein, the person shall exhaust this remedy before resorting to the contract claim herein provided. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to deprive the plaintiff of any tort claim which the plaintiff may have against any person for loss or damage, or deprivation of land, or of any estate or interest therein. If the plaintiff elects to pursue the plaintiff's tort claim and also the plaintiff's contract claim under this chapter, the contract claim shall be continued to await the result of the tort claim or shall be deemed alternative thereto. [L 1903, c 56, §96; RL 1925, §3286; am L 1932 2d, c 33, §2; RL 1935, §5099; RL 1945, §12699; RL 1955, §342-99; HRS §501-212; am L 1972, c 91, §1(mm); gen ch 1985]
Case Notes
Relocation of seaward boundary of land. 402 F. Supp. 95 (1975).
Infant, rights of after reaching majority. 41 H. 490 (1956), remanded 256 F.2d 208 (1958), modified 42 H. 661 (1958), app. dism'd 267 F.2d 449 (1959).
Although plaintiffs-mortgagors sought a putative class action for wrongful foreclosure of mortgages against defendant-mortgagee and claimed that under this section, plaintiffs-mortgagors could not be deprived of a tort claim, plaintiffs-mortgagors failed to file their claims prior to the land court's entry of new transfers of certificate of title, as required under section 501-118. 342 F. Supp. 3d 1029 (2018).
Cited: 50 H. 201, note 6, 436 P.2d 752 (1968).
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
501-1 Court; jurisdiction; proceedings; location; rules, practice, etc.
501-2 Judges; assignment of cases.
501-6 Registrar and assistants; appointment, tenure, powers, and duties.
501-7 Registrar; powers, duties.
501-8 Registrar may act in any circuit.
501-9 Assistant registrars; powers.
501-10 Registrar and assistants; oath, accounts, absence.
501-11 Examiners of title; appointment, removal.
501-13 Validity of facsimile signature.
501-21 Registration application; by whom made.
501-22 Filing; memorandum to be recorded.
501-23 Application, form, and contents.
501-23.5 Disposition of fees received at the bureau of conveyances.
501-25 Application may include several parcels.
501-26 Amendments to application.
501-29 Land subject to mortgage or lease.
501-31 Transfers pending application; temporary record; final record.
501-32 Reference to examiner; report; election to proceed.
501-42 Service; return day; further notice.
501-43 Guardian ad litem; compensation.
501-44 Contests not otherwise represented; duty of attorney general; res adjudicata when.
501-45 Answer intervention; surveyor to be heard when.
501-51 Reference to other judges or to master; maps, reference; subdivision; costs; etc.
501-53 Dismissal; effect; withdrawal, conditions.
501-64 Enforcement of decrees; bailiff.
501-71 Decree of registration; conditional when; quieting title, exceptions; reopened when.
501-72 Types of nonabsolute title.
501-73 Removing clouds on title.
501-75 Transcription of decree in registry; certificate of title.
501-81 Legal incidents of registered land.
501-82 Tenure of holder of certificate of title.
501-83 Certificate effective from transcription.
501-83.5 Outstanding owner's duplicate certificates.
501-84 Certificates, when two or more owners.
501-85 Substitution, one certificate for several, several for one; subdivisions, maps.
501-86 Registration runs with land.
501-87 No adverse possession or prescription.
501-88 Certificate as evidence.
501-89 Indexes, record books, etc.
501-101 Voluntary dealing with registered lands.
501-101.5 Agreements of sale; priority.
501-102 Filing liens, etc., notice.
501-103 Conveyances of less than fee simple.
501-104 Reference of doubtful questions.
501-105 Grantee's address, etc., to be stated.
501-106 Entry of new certificate.
501-107 Entry record; duplicates and certified copies.
501-108 Conveyance of fee; procedure.
501-109 Portion of registered fee.
501-110 Statement of encumbrances.
501-116 Mortgage registration necessary.
501-121 Leases; registration required.
501-131 Transfer in trust; procedure.
501-132 Powers to be noted on certificate; construction for court.
501-134 Trusts, implied or constructive.
501-135 Application by trustee.
501-136 Attachment and other liens; filing or recording of.
501-138 Discharge or modification of liens to be recorded.
501-139 Assistant registrar as official recorder.
501-140 Indorsement of and notices to plaintiff's attorney.
501-141 Court orders to be recorded.
501-144 New certificate after enforcement of lien; tax sale.
501-151 Pending actions, judgments; recording of, notice.
501-152 Certificate of judgment for defendant.
501-153 Certificate of judgment for plaintiff.
501-154 Writ of possession, service, time limit for registration.
501-155 Judgment directing conveyance.
501-157 Reregistration of mortgage or lease after partition.
501-158 Notice of bankruptcy proceedings.
501-166 Eminent domain; recording procedure.
501-167 New certificate upon reverter of land.
501-171 Registration upon transfer by descent and devise.
501-172 License to sell or mortgage, not affected.
501-173 Purchaser acquiring title through personal representative may have the same registered.
501-174 Power of attorney; registration necessary.
501-186 Registration of adverse claims; notice; hearing; costs.
501-196 Alterations upon registration book prohibited when; court hearings; limitations.
501-201 Service of notice after registration; how made; effect.
501-211 Fees required for protection against loss or damage.
501-212 Actions for compensation for fraud, mistake, etc.
501-213 Action, parties defendant.
501-214 Judgments, how satisfied.
501-215 Subrogation in favor of State.
501-216 State, not liable when.
501-217 Limitation of actions.
501-218 Schedule of fees; authority to amend.
501-219 Sale of land court maps.
501-231 Family child care homes; permitted use in residential areas.
501-232 Prohibition of transfer fees.
501-241 Leasehold time share interests.
501-242 Status of leasehold time share interest as real property.
501-243 Dual recording involving leasehold time share interests.
501-244 Assignment of leasehold time share interest.
501-245 Reference to recorded instruments pertaining to leasehold time share interests.
501-246 Legal incidents of a leasehold time share interest.
501-247 Voluntary dealing with a leasehold time share interest.
501-248 Jurisdiction for matters pertaining to leasehold time share interests.
501-261 Deregistration of fee time share interests.
501-261.5 Deregistration of registered land other than fee time share interests.
501-262 Effect of deregistration.
501-263 Effect of deregistration in specific cases.
501-264 Chain of title of deregistered land.
501-265 Status of fee time share interest and other interest in deregistered land as real property.
501-266 Dual recording involving deregistered land.
501-267 Reference to prior recorded instrument.
501-268 Legal incidents of deregistered land.
501-269 Jurisdiction for matters pertaining to deregistered land.