§657-21 Extension by keeping defendant in ignorance. When an action is alleged by a plaintiff to have been commenced within the time required by law, and the allegation is put in issue by the defendant, it shall be competent for the defendant to prove, on the trial, that the process issued by the plaintiff was not issued with the intent or in the manner required by law; or that any means whatever were used by the plaintiff, or the plaintiff's attorney, to prevent the service of the writ, or to keep the defendant in ignorance of the issuing thereof. [CC 1859, §1044; RL 1925, §2655; RL 1935, §3926; RL 1945, §10437; RL 1955, §241-20; HRS §657-21; am L 1972, c 105, §1(m); gen ch 1985]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 36. Civil Remedies and Defenses and Special Proceedings
657-1.8 Civil action arising from sexual offenses; application; certificate of merit.
657-3.5 Relation back of amendments.
657-4 Two years; libel and slander.
657-5 Domestic judgments and decrees.
657-5.5 Judgments for support.
657-6 Four years; causes arising in foreign jurisdiction, etc.
657-7 Damage to persons or property.
657-7.3 Medical torts; limitation of actions; time.
657-7.5 Third-party defendants, time in which plaintiff may amend.
657-8 Limitation of action for damages based on construction to improve real property.
657-9 Action barred in foreign jurisdiction.
657-11 Recoveries authorized by federal statute.
657-13 Infancy, insanity, imprisonment.
657-14 Disability to exist at accrual of action.
657-15 Two or more disabilities.
657-18 Extension by absence from State.
657-19 Extension by injunction.
657-20 Extension by fraudulent concealment.
657-21 Extension by keeping defendant in ignorance.
657-21.5 Extension by sentencing of criminal defendant.
657-22 When process not commencement.
657-23 Extension while criminal case is pending.
657-24 Periodic payments of damages.