Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 304A > Part II > SCHOLARSHIP AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

• Adjutant general: means the adjutant general of the State as defined in section 121-7. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Apprehension: means the taking of a person into custody. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Code: means the Hawaii Code of Military Justice. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Commissioned officer: includes a commissioned warrant officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Governor: means the governor of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Grade: means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Judge advocate: means a commissioned officer of the organized state military forces who is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state, and is:
  (1) Certified or designated as a judge advocate in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, or a reserve component of one of the above;
  (2) Certified as a non-federally recognized judge advocate by the senior force judge advocate as competent to perform the military justice duties required by this chapter; or
  (3) Certified by a senior judge advocate of the commander of another force in the state military forces, as the convening authority directs; provided that there is no judge advocate available as described under paragraph (1) or (2). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Legal officer: means any commissioned officer of the organized militia of the State designated to perform legal duties for a command. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military: refers to any or all of the armed forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military judge: means an official of a general or special court-martial detailed in accordance with part V of this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Military offenses: means those offenses that are enumerated in part X of this chapter that do not have a corresponding offense in the civilian penal code. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Officer: means a commissioned officer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Rank: means the order of precedence among members of the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• State judge advocate: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of military justice in the state military forces. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• State military forces: means the National Guard of the State, as defined in title 32 United States Code § 101(3), the organized naval militia of the State, and any other military force organized under the laws of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 124B-1
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• university: refers to the University of Hawaii, unless otherwise required by the context. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 304A-101