Schuler v. Wallace

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to compel payment of the execution sale proceeds to Appellants who prior to such sale were the owners. It seeks our interpretation of the language of the former HRS § 651-65, as it read before its repeal and the substitution of a new Chapter 651, part III, by Act 136, Sess. L. 1976. Former § 651-65, in relevant part, read as follows: (

§ 651-65 Certain Real Property. Real Property consisting of one piece of land not to exceed one acre, and the dwelling house and other buildings thereon situated, where the owner resides, shall be exempt from levy…