Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 502 > Part XII - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

• 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.
• Document: means information affecting title to real property that is eligible to be entered into the public records, including any plan of land prepared pursuant to section 502-17. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electric, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar properties. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Electronic document: means a document that is stored in an electronic medium. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent of affixing a signature on the document. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• recording: means the act of entering into the public records the written instruments affecting title to real property. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-7
• Signature: means the name of a person as written by the individual, the affixing of a mark or finger or toe print, or electronic signature as that term is defined in chapter 489E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-7
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 502-121