§501-213  Action, parties defendant.  If
any contract claim is prosecuted to recover for loss or damage, or for
deprivation of land, or of any estate or interest therein, arising wholly
through fraud, negligence, omission, mistake, or misfeasance of the registrar,
assistant registrar, or of any of the examiners of title, in the performance of
executive or ministerial duties, or of any of the assistants or clerks, in the
performance of their respective duties, then the action shall be brought
against the state director of finance, as sole defendant.  If any action is
brought to recover for loss or damage, or deprivation of land, or of any estate
or interest therein, arising wholly through any fraud, negligence, omission,
mistake, or misfeasance of some person other than the officers and assistants
above named, or arising jointly through the fraud, negligence, omission,
mistake, or misfeasance of such other person and any such officers and
assistants, then the action shall be brought against both the director and such
other person as joint defendants. [L 1903, c 56, §97; RL 1925, §3287; RL 1935,
§5100; RL 1945, §12700; RL 1955, §342-100; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §14; am L
1963, c 114, §1; HRS §501-213; am L 1972, c 91, §1(nn)]



 



Cross References



 



  Suits against State, see chapter 661.



 



Rules of Court



 



  Parties, see Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure, part IV.