Hawaii Revised Statutes
657. Limitation of Actions
657-34 Disabilities.

§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

Hawaii Revised Statutes

Title 36. Civil Remedies and Defenses and Special Proceedings

657. Limitation of Actions

657-1 Six years.

657-1.5 Limitation of actions not applicable to State. No limitation of actions provided for under this or any other chapter shall apply to bar the institution or maintenance of any action by or on behalf of the State and its agencies, unless the Sta...

657-1.8 Civil action arising from sexual offenses; application; certificate of merit.

657-2 Mutual current account.

657-3 Counterclaim.

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.

657-10 Special limitations.

657-11 Recoveries authorized by federal statute.

657-12 REPEALED.

657-13 Infancy, insanity, imprisonment.

657-14 Disability to exist at accrual of action.

657-15 Two or more disabilities.

657-16 and 657-17 REPEALED.

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.

657-31 Twenty years.

657-31.5 Adverse possession.

657-32 How computed.

657-33 Action accrues when.

657-33.5 Deregistered land.

657-34 Disabilities.

657-35 Extension of time by death.

657-36 Same.

657-37 REPEALED.

657-38 Possession, interrupting statute.