2019 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 26. TRADE REGULATION AND PRACTICE
483. Uniform Joint Obligations Act
483-4 Effect of obligee's release to one or more.
§483-4 Effect of obligee's release to one or more. 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 obligee's rights; and in the absence of such a reservation of rights shall discharge co-obligors only to the extent provided in section 483-5. [L 1941, c 60, §4; RL 1945, §8744; RL 1955, §192-4; HRS §483-4; gen ch 1985]
Case Notes
Where there was no reservation of rights in purchase agreement option by obligee against one co-obligor and no relationship between the co-obligors as joint debtors requiring payment, indemnification or contribution, §483-5 did not apply; thus, as there was no reservation of rights in purchase option by obligee against one co-obligor, as required under this section, the purchase option which discharged that co-obligor from liability for the balance due under the agreement of sale discharged the other co-obligor as well. 89 H. 461 (App.), 974 P.2d 1051.
