HRS §490:7-506
Getting a signature on a document you received
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If you receive a paper title document that needs the seller's signature to be valid, you can force them to sign it. The transfer only counts as a full negotiation once they sign.
buyers
The statute, as written — Delivery without indorsement: right to compel indorsement
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
The transferee of a negotiable tangible document of title has a specifically enforceable right to have its transferor supply any necessary indorsement, but the transfer becomes a negotiation only as of the time the indorsement is supplied.
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