§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.
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
1. Common Law; Construction of Laws
1-1 Common law of the State; exceptions.
1-2 Certain laws not obligatory until published.
1-4 Persons and property subject to laws.
1-4.5 Cession of concurrent jurisdiction.
1-5 Contracts in contravention of law.
1-8 No revivor on repeal; exception.
1-9 Express or implied repeals.
1-10 Effect of repeal on accrued rights.
1-11 Effect of repeal on pending suit or prosecution.
1-12 Application of statutory construction provisions.
1-13.5 Hawaiian language; spelling.
1-14 Words have usual meaning.
1-15 Construction of ambiguous context.
1-19 "Person", "others", "any", etc.
1-24 Interpretation of uniform acts.
1-25 References apply to amendments.
1-27 Citations of laws included in supplements and replacement volumes.
1-28 Service of notice by mail.
1-30 Hawaiian standard time applicable.