Hawaii Revised Statutes
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 659-2 (2025)
] Against corporations, by attorney general
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[§659-2] Against corporations, by attorney general. It may also be granted upon the application of the attorney general against individuals acting as a corporation without being legally incorporated. [L 1876, c 39, §37; RL 1925, §2717; RL 1935, §4259; RL 1945, §10280; RL 1955, §236-20; HRS §659-47; am L 1972, c 90, §3(b); ren HRS §659-2]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1969–1972 · leading case: Ramsay Travel, Inc. v. Kondo, 495 P.2d 1172 (Haw. 1972).
Ramsay Travel, Inc. v. Kondo, 495 P.2d 1172 (Haw. 1972). “HRS § 659-2 provides: Object. The object of this order is to prevent a denial of justice, and it therefore issues in all cases where the law has assigned no specific relief by the ordinary means, or even where a party has other means of relief, if the slowness of ordinary legal…”
Hawaii Nat'l Bank v. Okino, 461 P.2d 136 (Haw. 1969). “A writ of mandamus will issue according to section 659-2 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes where “the slowness of ordinary legal forms is likely to produce such a delay, that the public good and the administration of justice will suffer from it.”
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