§657-9 Action barred in foreign jurisdiction. When a cause of action has arisen in any foreign jurisdiction, and by the laws thereof an action thereon cannot there be maintained against a person, by reason of the lapse of time, an action thereon shall not be maintained against the person in this State, except in favor of a domiciled resident thereof, who has held the cause of action from the time it accrued. [CC 1859, §1167; RL 1925, §2646; RL 1935, §3917; RL 1945, §10428; RL 1955, §241-8; HRS §657-9; gen ch 1985]
Case Notes
Enforcement of valid and subsisting foreign judgment. 128 F. Supp. 697 (1955).
Where, pursuant to Philippine case law, relevant Philippine statutes of limitations were tolled as a matter of law, action was brought in this State within the time required under the relevant Philippine statutes of limitations as required by this section. 89 H. 91, 969 P.2d 1209 (1998).
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.