Hawaii · statute · Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 483 · 6 active provisions
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.
A judgment against one or more of several obligors, or against one or more of joint, or of joint and several obligors shall not discharge a co-obligor who was not a party to the proceeding wherein the judgment was rendered.
The amount or value of any consideration received by the obligee from one or more of several obligors, or from one or more of joint, or of joint and several obligors, in whole or in partial satisfaction of their obligations, shall be credited to the extent of the amount received on the obligations of all co-obligors to…
Subject to section 483-3, the obligee's release or discharge of one or more of several obligors, or of one or more of joint, or of joint and several obligors shall not discharge co-obligors, against whom the obligee in writing and as part of the same transaction as the release or discharge, expressly reserves the oblig…
If an obligee releasing or discharging an obligor without express reservation of rights against a co-obligor, then knows or has reason to know that the obligor released or discharged did not pay so much of the claim as the obligor was bound by the obligor's contract or relation with that co-obligor to pay, the obligee'…
On the death of a joint obligor in contract, the joint obligor's personal representative shall be bound as such jointly with the surviving obligor or obligors.