Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 328 > Part III - Frozen Food Products

• Applicant: means any person who initially applies to a creditor directly for a loan or credit, or who directly applies to a creditor for an extension, renewal, or continuation of credit, or applies to a creditor indirectly by use of an existing credit plan for an amount exceeding a previously established credit limit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 477E-2
• Consumer credit: means credit extended to a natural person primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose:

  (1) In which the principal amount does not exceed $250,000 or in which there is an express written commitment to extend credit in a principal amount not exceeding $250,000; or

  (2) Such credit is secured by real property or by personal property used or expected to be used as the borrower's principal dwelling. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Credit: means the loan of money, or the right granted by a creditor to a debtor to defer payment of debt, or to incur debts and defer payment therefor, or to purchase property or services and defer payment therefor. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 477E-2
• Credit: means the right to defer payment of debt or to incur debt and defer its payment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1
• Credit card: means any card, plate, coupon book, or other single credit device issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the cardholder in obtaining money, goods, services, or anything else of value, from time to time, on credit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1
• Credit card agreement: means any agreement that provides primarily for the extension of credit pursuant to the cardholder's use of a credit card. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1
• Creditor: means any bank; savings and loan association; trust company; financial services loan company; credit union; mortgage loan originator; mortgage loan originator company; pawnbroker; mutual benefit society or fraternal benefit society; debt adjuster; the issuer of a credit card as defined in § 708-800; any person who initiates, extends, renews, or continues loans of money or credit; any person who regularly arranges for the initiation, extension, renewal, or continuation of a loan of money or credit; or any assignee of an original creditor who participates in the decision to grant, extend, renew, or to continue a loan of money or credit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 477E-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: includes stock in a cooperative housing corporation and personal property used or intended to be used as a consumer's residence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
• Truth in Lending Act: means the federal Truth in Lending Act (15 U. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 478-1