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Code · Hawaii · Chapter 657

CHAPTER 657

317 words·~1 min read·/hi/chapter-657/657

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CHAPTER 657
LIMITATION OF ACTIONS
Part I. Personal Actions
Section
657-1 Six years
657-1.5 Limitation of actions not applicable to State
657-1.7 Civil action arising from sexual offenses against
adult victims; certificate of merit
657-1.8 Civil action arising from sexual offenses;
application; certificate of merit; trauma-informed
response
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657-12 Repealed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657-16, 17 Repealed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
Part II. Real Actions
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657-37 Repealed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
Case Notes
The statutory scheme and legislative history of §386-8 indicated that the phrase "except as limited by [this] chapter" was not intended to restrict an employee's right to intervene in a lawsuit that was timely filed by his or her employer; thus, employee was not barred by the statute of limitations under §657-7 to intervene in plaintiff insurer's timely filed suit, and the circuit court erred in granting defendant's motion for summary judgment. 126 H. 406, 271 P.3d 1165 (2012).
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