§1-19 "Person",
"others", "any", etc. The word "person", or
words importing persons, for instance, "another", "others",
"any", "anyone", "anybody", and the like, signify
not only individuals, but corporations, firms, associations, societies,
communities, assemblies, inhabitants of a district, or neighborhood, or persons
known or unknown, and the public generally, where it appears, from the subject matter,
the sense and connection in which such words are used, that such construction
is intended. [CC 1859, §17; RL 1925, §16; RL 1935, §17; am L 1939, c 150, §1;
RL 1945, §16; am L 1945, c 233, §3; am L 1955, c 57, §1(e); RL 1955, §1-24; HRS
§1-19]
Case Notes
Though "person" includes corporation, term
"corporation" held not to include an individual. 22 H. 660, 662.
Applicability of various statutes to counties discussed,
counties as "corporations". 17 H. 9, 14. Municipal corporation
subject to garnishment as a "person". 23 H. 564, 568.
Notes of Decisions
State v. Hoshijo Ex Rel. White, 76 P.3d 550 (Haw. 2003).
· cites it 8× “[23] HRS § 1-19 (1993) provides as follows: § 1-19 "Person," "others," "any," etc.”
Castro v. Melchor., 414 P.3d 53 (Haw. 2018).
· cites it 2× “This statute remains in place, with minor amendments, as HRS § 1-19 (2009), which reads as follows: "Person", "others", "any", etc.”
State v. Good Guys for Fasi, 528 P.2d 811 (Haw. 1974).
· cites it 26× “1972) is undefined and thus should be controlled by the general definitional statute HRS § 1-19 which provides: § 1-19 "Person," "others," "any," etc.”
Mabe v. Real Est. Comm'n, 670 P.2d 459 (Haw. App. 1983).
· cites it 2× “Although HRS chapter 467 does not include a definition of the term “person,” HRS § 1-19 (1976) defines the word “person” or words importing person to mean “not only individuals, but corporations, firms, associations, societies, communities, assemblies, inhabitants of a district,…”
Pub. Utils. Comm'n v. Honolulu Rapid Transit Co., 530 P.2d 742 (Haw. 1975).
· cites it 2× “With respect to the statutory definition the record in this case indicates the following: HRT is a corporation (and a corporation may be a “person,” HRS § 1-19). While the affidavits filed by the PUC and HRT in support of their motions for summary judgment do not set forth these…”
Jacobs v. Billy Casper Golf, LLC., 500 P.3d 474 (Haw. App. 2021).
· cites it 4× “" In making this argument, the Jacobses ignore HRS § 1-19 (2009), which states in relevant part: The word "person" .”
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