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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-153

  • action: includes an administrative enforcement action by any state or county agency, board, or commission against a landowner for a land use violation or a currently unauthorized structure encroaching on public lands, including but not limited to submerged lands or lands within the shoreline, that falls, slides, or comes onto public land, or arises from or benefits an adjoining or abutting private land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-151
  • judgment: includes an order or decree having the effect of a judgment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-151
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.

Whenever in any action affecting registered land, judgment is entered for the plaintiff, except in actions relating to terms of less than one year, the judgment is entitled to registration on presentation of a certificate of the entry thereof from the clerk of the court where the action is pending, to the assistant registrar, who shall enter a memorandum upon the certificate of title of the land to which the judgment relates. If the judgment does not apply to all the land described in the certificate of title the certificate of the clerk and the memorandum entered by the assistant registrar shall contain a description of the land affected by the judgment.