Hawaii Revised Statutes
657. Limitation of Actions
657-38 Possession, interrupting statute.

§657-38 Possession, interrupting statute. No person shall be deemed to have been in possession of any lands within the meaning of this part, merely by reason of having made an entry thereon, unless the person has continued in open and peaceable possession of the same for the space of one year after such entry; or unless an action has been commenced upon the entry within one year after ouster. [L 1870, c 22, §7; am L 1909, c 103, §1; RL 1925, §2664; RL 1935, §3935; RL 1945, §10446; RL 1955, §241-37; HRS §657-38; gen ch 1985]
Case Notes
Tacking, privity of estate or title. 31 H. 108 (1929).

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657-12 REPEALED.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657-16 and 657-17 REPEALED.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.