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Haw. Rev. Stat. § 502-81 (2026)

  Instruments may be recorded; as evidence

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PART VIII.  REQUIREMENT AND EFFECT OF

ACKNOWLEDGING, RECORDING, NOT RECORDING

 

Note

 

  Sections 502-81 to 502-85 designated as Part VIII and part heading amended by L 2009, c 102, §2(9).

 

     §502-81  Instruments may be recorded; as evidence.  Every conveyance or other instrument, acknowledged or proved, and certified in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, by any of the officers before named, may be read in evidence without further proof thereof, and is entitled to be recorded. [CC 1859, §1258; am imp L 1917, c 207, §1; am L 1921, c 34, §1; RL 1925, §3168; RL 1935, §5154; RL 1945, §12754; RL 1955, §343-47; HRS §502-81]

 

Case Notes

 

  Deed of corporation admissible in evidence, when.  18 H. 412, 413 (1907).

  Where due execution shown instrument admissible in evidence even if certificate of acknowledgment invalid.  26 H. 121 (1921).

  Agreement between grantee named in a deed and another declaring that both had interests in the land and setting out terms of their arrangement, entitled to be recorded.  32 H. 323, 325 (1932).

 

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1996–1996 · leading case: Markham v. Markham, 909 P.2d 602 (Haw. App. 1996).
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Markham v. Markham, 909 P.2d 602 (Haw. App. 1996). · cites it 8× “See HRS §§ 502-81 (1993), [3] 502-82 (1993), and 502-83 (1993).”
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