No law has any retrospective operation, unless otherwise expressed or obviously intended.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 1-3
Laws not retrospective
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Dash v. Wayne (1988)
Most recently applied in First Insurance Co. of Hawaii, Ltd. v. Dayoan (December 2010)
CC 1859, §5; RL 1925, §5; RL 1935, §5; RL 1945, §4; am L 1955, c 57, §1(a); RL 1955, §1-6; HRS §1-3
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Hawaii State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Hawaii statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.