Hawaii
The following property is exempt from execution, attachment, distress, and forced sale: 1st. All necessary household, table, and kitchen furniture, one sewing-machine, crockery, tin and plated ware, calabashes and mats, family portraits and photographs and their necessary frames, wearing apparel, bedding, household linen, and provision for household use for three months. 2nd. Farming implements and utensils not exceeding five hundred dollars in value; two horses or mules, and their harness and their food for one month; one horse, one set of single harness, and one vehicle of any person who is maimed or crippled. 3d. The tools or implements of a mechanic or artisan necessary to carry on his trade; the instruments and chest of a physician, dentist, or surveyor necessary to the exercise of his profession, together with his necessary office furniture and fixture; the necessary office furniture, fixtures, blanks, stationery, and office equipment of attorneys and judges, ministers of the gospel and rabbis; the typewriter, one desk, and six chairs of a stenographer or typewriter; the musical instruments of every teacher of music, used in giving instruction; one bicycle used in carrying on of one’s business or transporting him to and from his place of business; the fishing nets, dips and seines, and the boats with their tackle and equipment, of every fisherman. 4th. The horses or mules and their harness, one cart, wagon, or stage, one dray or truck, one coupe, hack or carriage for one or two horses, by use of which a cartman, drayman, truckster, huckster, peddler, hackman, teamster, or other laborer earns his living; and one horse and harness and one vehicle used by a physician, surgeon, or minister of the gospel in the practice or exercise of his profession. 5th. The nautical instruments and wearing apparel of every master, officer, and seaman of any steamship or other vessel. 6th. All books, papers, pamphlets, and manuscripts, together with book-cases, shelvings, cabinets, and other devices for holding the same except those kept for sale by any dealer therein. 7th. One-half of the wages due every laborer or person working for wages. 8th. The proceeds of insurance on, and the proceeds of sale of the property aforesaid for the period of three months after such proceeds are received. (Sec. 1831.) There is also exempt from execution the family Bible, family pictures, school-books, two swine or six goats, and all necessary fish, meat, flour, and vegetables, and one piece of land where kalo or any other vegetable is growing, not to exceed one-half acre actually cultivated for family use, also a house lot not to exceed one-quarter acre, and the dwelling and other buildings thereon, provided the value thereof shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars. But this exemption does not apply as against mechanics and material-men having liens for labor or material. (Sec. 1830.)