§664-5 No patent on award until boundaries settled. [Section effective until June 30, 2006. For section effective July 1, 2006, see below.] The department of land and natural resources is forbidden to issue any patent in confirmation of an award by name, made by the commissioners to quiet land titles, without the boundaries being defined in such patent, according to the decision of a commissioner of boundaries, or the supreme court, on appeal. [L 1894-5, c 14, §7; RL 1925, §556; RL 1935, §3664; RL 1945, §10205; RL 1955, §234-5; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §21; am L 1961, c 132, §1; HRS §664-5]

§664-5 No patent on award until boundaries settled. [Section effective July 1, 2006. For section effective until June 30, 2006, see above.] The department of land and natural resources is forbidden to issue any patent in confirmation of an award by name, made by the commissioners to quiet land titles, without the boundaries being defined in such patent, according to the decision of a commissioner of boundaries, or the intermediate appellate court, or the supreme court on appeal. [L 1894-5, c 14, §7; RL 1925, §556; RL 1935, §3664; RL 1945, §10205; RL 1955, §234-5; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §21; am L 1961, c 132, §1; HRS §664-5; am L 2004, c 202, §73]

L 2004, c 202, §82 provides:

"SECTION 82. Appeals pending in the supreme court as of the effective date of this Act [July 1, 2006] may be transferred to the intermediate appellate court or retained at the supreme court as the chief justice, in the chief justice's sole discretion, directs."

See Appendix to Revised Laws of Hawaii 1925, pp 2120-2152.

Awards by metes and bounds. 30 H. 666. Decree. 31 H. 118.

Cited: 49 H. 456, 486-7, 421 P.2d 550.