§657-34 Disabilities. If, when right of entry or of action first accrues as aforesaid, the person entitled to the entry or action is within the age of eighteen years, or insane, or imprisoned, such person, or anyone claiming from, by, or under the person, may make the entry or bring the action at any time within five years after the disability is removed, notwithstanding the twenty years before limited in that behalf, have expired. [L 1870, c 22, §4; am L 1898, c 19, §3; RL 1925, §2660; RL 1935, §3931; RL 1945, §10442; RL 1955, §241-33; HRS §657-34; am L 1972, c 2, §37(2) and c 105, §1(o); am L 1979, c 105, §62; gen ch 1985]
Case Notes
Infancy does not affect rule requiring reasonable attention to property and rights. 16 H. 228 (1904).
Disabilities of heirs when statute has started running. 18 H. 662 (1907).
Conveyance to minors. 24 H. 1 (1917).
Disaffirmance by minor. 30 H. 184 (1927).
These exceptions cannot be engrafted on §667-13 to extend period of redemption thereunder. 45 H. 505, 371 P.2d 217 (1962).
Cited: 19 H. 474, 480 (1909).
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.