PART II. 
REAL ACTIONS



 



Law Journals and Reviews



 



  The Statutory Elements of Hawaii's Adverse Possession Law. 
14 HBJ No. 2 Summer 1978, pg. 67.



 



§657-31  Twenty years.  No person shall
commence an action to recover possession of any lands, or make any entry
thereon, unless within twenty years after the right to bring the action first
accrued. [L 1870, c 22, §1; am L 1898, c 19, §1; RL 1925, §2657; RL 1935,
§3928; RL 1945, §10439; RL 1955, §241-30; HRS §657-31; am L 1973, c 26, §4]



 



Law Journals and Reviews



 



  Beach Access:  A Public Right?  23 HBJ 65.



  Public Beach Access:  A Right for All?  Opening the Gate
to Iroquois Point Beach.  30 UH L. Rev. 495.



 



Case Notes



 



  Miscellaneous:  Doctrine of lost grant invoked against
State.  25 H. 357, aff'd 272 F. 856.  As to dower being barred.  6 H. 651; 15
H. 284.  As to curtesy.  16 H. 432.  May run in favor of married woman.  9 H.
135.  Parol gift of land followed by required period of adverse possession
cannot be disturbed.  10 H. 495.  Parol exchange.  4 H. 198.  Foreclosure of
mortgage.  14 H. 527; 15 H. 507; 17 H. 49; 19 H. 382; 20 H. 620.  Deficiency
judgment.  20 H. 620.  Term "entry" has common law meaning.  19 H.
681.  Interruption of statute.  22 H. 673; 30 H. 204.  Running of statute not
checked by conveyance to minor.  24 H. 1, 6.  As to cotenant and ouster.  24 H.
361.  Acceptance of deed does not necessarily affect adverse possession.  5 H.
104; 48 H. 17, 395 P.2d 273.  Acceptance by defendant of Royal Patent in name
of plaintiff.  6 H. 390.  Legal presumption of a deed.  24 H. 750.  Basis of
statute differs from laches.  25 H. 438, aff'd 269 F. 751.  Statute
distinguished from presumption of lost grant.  25 H. 357, aff'd 272 F. 586. 
Tacking and taxes.  31 H. 108.  Directed verdict, possession less than 10
years.  31 H. 436.  Where evidence of adverse possession is clear and
undisputed it is error not to direct a verdict.  48 H. 17, 395 P.2d 273. 
Fractional interests.  30 H. 100.



  Requirements of adverse possession.  7 H. 590; 11 H. 518; 14
H. 321; 14 H. 330; 26 H. 809.  Occasional visits to land without residence or
occupation held insufficient.  4 H. 207.  Long acquiescence in adverse
possession though not a bar till after statutory period held to be
significant.  6 H. 700.  Plaintiff in ejectment need not show possession within
statutory period if plaintiff shows title and no adverse possession is proved. 
7 H. 324.  Landlord and tenant.  12 H. 142.  Konohiki and tenant.  4 H. 259; 10
H. 166; 15 H. 124; 19 H. 484.  As between cotenants.  4 H. 42; 5 H. 491; 7 H.
575; 10 H. 583; 13 H. 716; 16 H. 228; 20 H. 724; 36 H. 614; 39 H. 327.  As to
infants.  7 H. 421; 16 H. 228.  Possession by administrator.  4 H. 571; 4 H.
577.  After administrator's discharge administrator holds realty adverse to the
heirs.  6 H. 183.  Claim must be ownership in fee.  16 H. 432; 18 H. 662; 19 H.
602; 22 H. 510.  Claim under defective title.  9 H. 135.  Claim where
possession commenced with permission.  4 H. 481; 29 H. 750.  By more than one
person.  31 H. 661.  Recognition of title in another inconsistent with adverse
possession.  37 H. 49.  See 33 H. 387; 34 H. 679; 34 H. 722; 36 H. 164; 39 H.
482.  Prima facie case of constructive adverse possession.  50 H. 369, 440 P.2d
965.



  Entry means entry by claimant personally as well as entry
through another.  54 H. 489, 510 P.2d 93.



  Easement by prescription:  36 H. 692.



  Exceptions:  Does not run against government.  3 H. 635; 7 H.
421; 16 H. 652; 18 H. 649.  Did run against king on private lands.  14 H. 330;
14 H. 643.  Mental incompetent.  31 H. 817.



  Exclusivity of possession is essential to claim of adverse
possession.  57 H. 172, 552 P.2d 77.



  A tenant in common claiming adverse possession must prove
tenant acted in good faith, which in most cases mandates actual notice to tenant's
cotenants of tenant's claim.  57 H. 195, 552 P.2d 1380.



  Element of hostility discussed.  60 H. 650, 594 P.2d 128.



  Saving clause in 1973 amendment requires application of prior
law's 10-year period of limitations in adverse possession case.  3 H. App. 11,
639 P.2d 1119.



  Cited:  3 H. 610, 612; 3 H. 768, 776; 5 H. 377, 378; 5 H.
525; 6 H. 329, 330; 6 H. 545; 6 H. 573; 7 H. 575, 577; 8 H. 508, 510; 10 H.
573, 574; 11 H. 644, 649; 11 H. 755, 757; 14 H. 643, 644; 16 H. 345, 347; 18 H.
121, 123; 21 H. 252, 253; 31 H. 376, 383; 31 H. 796, 798; 32 H. 659, 661; 48 H.
17, 19, 395 P.2d 273; 49 H. 537, 553, 425 P.2d 83; 73 H. 297, 832 P.2d 724.



 



Hawaii Legal Reporter Citations



 



  Action not barred.  80-2 HLR 800829.