§483-1 Definitions; limitations of law.
In this chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated:
"Obligation" does not include a
liability in tort.
"Obligee" does not include a person
having a right based on a tort.
"Obligor" does not include a person
liable for a tort.
"Several obligors" means obligors
severally bound for the same performance. [L 1941, c 60, §1; RL 1945, §8741; RL
1955, §192-1; HRS §483-1; am L 2008, c 19, §48]
Case Notes
Where case involved the joint and several debt of
defendants under an agreement of sale and did not involve joint tortfeasors,
trial court erred in ruling that this chapter was not applicable to defendants'
joint and several obligation to plaintiff. 89 H. 461 (App.), 974 P.2d 1051.
Notes of Decisions
Gurrobat v. HTH Corp.., 323 P.3d 792 (Haw. 2014).
· cites it 4× “HRS § 483-1 (defining “several obligors” as “obligors severally bound for the same performance”).”
Schiffer v. United Grocers, Inc., 989 P.2d 10 (Or. 1999).
· cites it 2× “Hawaii: Haw Rev Stat §§ 483-1 to 483-6 (1993 and Supp 1998) (adopting, with amendments, the Uniform Joint Obligations Act, under which a creditor may release a joint, or joint and several, obligor and reserve fully all rights against other obligors; where the creditor fails to…”
Lee v. Yano, 997 P.2d 68 (Haw. App. 2000).
· cites it 4× “HRS § 483-1 (1993) states that "[s]everal obligors means obligors severally bound for the same performance.”
Converse v. James, 974 P.2d 1051 (Haw. App. 1999).
· cites it 3× “In enacting the HUJOA in 1941, the Hawaii legislature deviated from the UJOA in only one substantive respect: under the HU-JOA, specifically HRS § 483-1, the obligations of joint tortfeasors are specifically exempted from application of the HUJOA.”
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