Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 338 > Part III - General Provisions

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1
• Disposition: includes sale, lease, assignment, award by lottery, or any other transaction concerning a subdivision, if undertaken for gain or profit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1
• 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.
• Offer: includes every inducement, solicitation, or attempt to encourage a person to acquire an interest in land, if undertaken for gain or profit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1
• Person: means an individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, unincorporated association, two or more of any of the foregoing having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1
• Public offering statement: means a statement that fully and accurately discloses the physical characteristics of the subdivided lands offered and all unusual or material circumstances or features affecting the subdivided lands. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1
• Purchaser: means a person who acquires or attempts to acquire or succeeds to an interest in land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1
• subdivided lands: means any land which is divided or is proposed to be divided for the purpose of disposition into two or more lots, parcels, units, or interests and also includes any land whether contiguous or not if two or more lots, parcels, units, or interests are offered as a part of a common promotional plan of advertising and sale. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1
• Subdivider: means any owner of subdivided land who offers the land for disposition or the principal agent of an owner, who has been duly authorized in a writing filed with the director. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 484-1