Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 121 - Militia; National Guard

• Administrative order: means the order resulting from an administrative adjudication by a hearings officer or the attorney general, through the agency, of the final disposition of a matter before the agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agency: means the child support enforcement agency established by section 576D-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Alternative base period: means the four completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• American vessel: means any vessel documented or numbered under the laws of the United States; and includes any vessel which is neither documented or numbered under the laws of the United States nor documented under the laws of any foreign country, if its crew is employed solely by one or more citizens or residents of the United States or corporations organized under the laws of the United States or of any state. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Ancillary administration: Probate administration of property (usually real property) owned in a State other than the one in which the decedent had his (her) principal residence at the time of death.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Appurtenant works: means any structure, such as spillways in the dam or separate therefrom, the reservoir and its rim, low level outlet works, aboveground freshwater storage tanks, and water conduits, such as tunnels, pipelines, or penstocks, through the dam or its abutment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Aquaculture: means the propagation, cultivation, or farming of aquatic plants and animals in controlled or selected environments for research purposes, commercial purposes, or stocking purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Aquatic life: means any type or species of mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, invertebrate, coral, or other animal that inhabits the freshwater or marine environment and includes any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof; or freshwater or marine plants, including seeds, roots, products, and other parts thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrearage: means past due child support under an existing court or administrative order. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attached to a regular employer: means :

  (1) The employee is being offered work each week by the employee's regular employer; or

  (2) If no work is being offered:

  (A) The employer is maintaining the individual on the payroll by paying for a medical insurance plan or by maintaining the employee's sick leave or vacation credits; or

  (B) There is a definite return to work date with the same employer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attending physician: means a physician who is primarily responsible for the treatment of a work injury. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Benefit year: means a period of fifty-two consecutive weeks beginning with the first day of the week in which an individual files a new valid claim for benefits; except that the benefit year shall be fifty-three weeks if the filing of a new valid claim would result in overlapping any quarter of the base year of a previously filed new claim. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, with respect to the individual's unemployment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Board: means the board of advisors of the center for alternative dispute resolution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 613-1
• Board: means the board of directors of the criminal justice research institute. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 614-1
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Calendar quarter: means the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31, or the equivalent thereof, as the department may by rule prescribe. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Canadian domestic-violence protection order: means a judgment or part of a judgment or order issued in a civil proceeding by a court of Canada under law of the issuing jurisdiction that relates to domestic violence and prohibits a respondent from:
  (1) Being in physical proximity to a protected individual or following a protected individual;
  (2) Directly or indirectly contacting or communicating with a protected individual or other individual described in the order;
  (3) Being within a certain distance of a specified place or location associated with a protected individual; or
  (4) Molesting, annoying, harassing, or engaging in threatening conduct directed at a protected individual. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Center: means the center for alternative dispute resolution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 613-1
• Certified shorthand reporter: means a shorthand reporter certified by the Hawaii supreme court through the Hawaii board of certified shorthand reporters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 606-13.5
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charge to the jury: The judge's instructions to the jury concerning the law that applies to the facts of the case on trial.
• Child support: means payment for the necessary support and maintenance of a child as required by law that includes but is not limited to spousal support when being enforced in conjunction with child support or medical support when a court or administrative order requires the debtor parent to pay an amount in lieu of providing medical insurance coverage or to reimburse for maternity and delivery expenses incurred when the debtor parent's child was born. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Commercial marine license: means a license issued to take marine life within or outside the State for commercial purpose. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Commercial marine licensee: means a person who has been issued a commercial marine license pursuant to § 189-2. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Commercial purpose: means the taking of marine life for profit or gain or as a means of livelihood where the marine life is taken in or outside of the State, or where the marine life is sold, offered for sale, landed, or transported for sale anywhere in the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Committed person: means a person committed to the custody of the director of corrections and rehabilitation for imprisonment pursuant to chapter 706, including a probationer serving a term of imprisonment pursuant to section 706-624(2)(a) and a misdemeanant or petty misdemeanant sentenced pursuant to section 706-663. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Compensation: means all benefits accorded by this chapter to an employee or the employee's dependents on account of a work injury as defined in this section; it includes medical and rehabilitation benefits, income and indemnity benefits in cases of disability or death, and the allowance for funeral and burial expenses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contributions: means the money payments required by this chapter to be made into the state unemployment compensation fund by any employing unit on account of having individuals in its employ. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Court: means the family courts of this State and, when the context requires, a court or agency of any other state having jurisdiction to establish, modify, and enforce support obligations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• crew leader: means an individual who:
  (A) Furnishes individuals to perform service in agricultural labor for any other person;
  (B) Pays (either on the crew leader's own behalf or on behalf of the other person) the individuals so furnished by the crew leader for the service in agricultural labor performed by them; and
  (C) Has not entered into a written agreement with the other person under which the individual is designated as an employee of the other person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-2
• Custodial parent: means a parent, guardian, or other person having physical custody of the child. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Dam: means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, that impounds or diverts water and that:

  (1) Is twenty-five feet or more in height from the natural bed of the stream or watercourse measured at the downstream toe of the barrier, or from the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the barrier if it is not across a stream channel or watercourse to a maximum water storage elevation;

  (2) Has an impounding capacity at maximum water storage elevation of fifty acre-feet or more; provided that this definition shall not apply to any artificial barrier that is less than six feet in height regardless of storage capacity or that has a storage capacity at maximum water storage elevation less than fifteen acre-feet regardless of height; or

  (3) Meets additional criteria or is specifically exempt as determined pursuant to rules adopted by the board of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-26
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-31
• Department: means the department of the attorney general. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Department: means the department of human services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1
• Department: means the department of land and natural resources. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Department: means the department of corrections and rehabilitation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Department: means the department of corrections and rehabilitation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353H-2
• Department: means the department of budget and finance. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Department: means the department of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent child: means any person to whom a duty of support is owed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-26
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-31
• Director: means the director of corrections and rehabilitation; provided that the signing or approval of vouchers and other routine matters may be delegated by the director to any authorized subordinate. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-1
• Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Disability: means loss or impairment of a physical or mental function. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Disciplinary action: means personnel action by an employer in the form of punishment against an employee for infraction of employer or contract rules, in the form of a reprimand, suspension, or discharge. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domestic protection order: means an injunction or other order issued by a tribunal that relates to domestic or family violence laws to prevent an individual from engaging in violent or threatening acts against, harassment of, direct or indirect contact or communication with, or being in physical proximity to another individual. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Duty of support: means any duty of support imposed or imposable by law, or by any court order, decree, or judgment, whether interlocutory or final or whether incidental to a proceeding for divorce, judicial separation, separate maintenance, or otherwise, and includes the duty to pay arrearages of support past due and unpaid. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Employee: means any individual in the employment of another person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Employee: means any individual in the employment of an employer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-26
• Employee: includes any person suffered or permitted to work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-31
• Employee: includes an individual employed by the State or a political subdivision of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-91
• Employee: includes :

  (1) A prospective employee who has applied for or otherwise actively expressed interest in employment with an employer; and

  (2) An individual employed by the State or a political subdivision of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-101

• Employee: means any person working for another for hire, including but not limited to, an individual employed in domestic service or at a family's or person's home or any individual employed by the individual's parent or spouse, or independent contractors. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Employer: means any person having one or more persons in the person's employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Employer: includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, receiver, trustee, or successor of any of the same, or any organized group of persons, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of any employer in relation to an employee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-26
• Employer: includes any individual, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, corporation, the personal representative of the estate of a deceased individual, or the receiver, trustee, or successor of any of the same, employing any persons, but shall not include the State or any political subdivision thereof or the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-31
• Employer: includes an agent of an employer or of the State or a political subdivision thereof, but does not include the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-91
• Employer: includes an agent of an employer or of the State or a political subdivision thereof but does not include the United States. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-101
• Employer: means any person who uses or engages the services of any person in exchange for the payment of wages or other means of exchange, including the United States government, the State, and any political subdivision thereof, and anyone who is or shall become obligated for payment of income. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Employer: means :

  (1) Any employing unit which for some portion of a day within the current calendar year has or had in employment one or more individuals; and

  (2) For the effective period of its election pursuant to section 383-77, any other employing unit which has elected to become subject to this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1

• Employer-owned communication device: means a device allowing for electronic communications, such as a mobile phone or tablet, that is owned or whose cost is reimbursed by the employer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-101
• Employing unit: means any individual or type of organization, including the State, any of its political subdivisions, any instrumentality of the State or its political subdivisions, any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor of any of the foregoing, or the legal representative of a deceased person, which has or subsequent to January 1, 1937, had one or more individuals performing services for it within this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Employment: means any service performed by an individual for another person under any contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, whether lawfully or unlawfully entered into. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• employment: includes services constituting employment under any employment security law of another state or of the federal government. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-61
• Employment: includes , but is not limited to, any service performed prior to January 1, 1978, which was employment as defined in this section prior to such date and, subject to the other provisions of this section, service performed after December 31, 1977, by an employee as defined in section 3306(i) and (o) of the federal Unemployment Tax Act, including service in interstate commerce. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-2
• Employment office: means a free public employment office or branch thereof operated by the State or any other state as a part of a state-controlled system of public employment offices or by a federal agency charged with the administration of an unemployment compensation program or free public employment offices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fire station: means a building for fire equipment and firefighters. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1
• Firefighter: means a member of a fire department whose principal duties are to prevent and fight fires. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• full-time work: means a forty-hour workweek unless regarded otherwise according to the standard practice, custom, or agreement in a particular trade, occupation, or business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Fund: means the unemployment compensation fund established by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Government agencies: means the offices, departments, branches, and other subdivisions of state and county governments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 613-1
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Harvest: means the taking and retaining of marine life by any means whatsoever. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Health care provider: means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1
• Hearings officer: means a public official appointed and commissioned pursuant to § 576E-10. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Hospital: means a facility licensed as a hospital by the department of health and accredited by The Joint Commission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1
• housing owner: means :
  (1) A private nonprofit corporation or other private nonprofit legal entity, a limited dividend corporation or other limited dividend legal entity, or a cooperative housing corporation, that is a mortgagor under section 202, 207, 213, 221(d)(3), 221(d)(5), or 231 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, or that conforms to the standards of those sections but that is not a mortgagor under those sections or any other private mortgagor under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, for very low-income, low-income, or moderate-income family housing, regulated or supervised under federal or state laws or by political subdivisions of the State, or agencies thereof, as to rents, charges, capital structure, rate of return, and methods of operation, from the time of issuance of the building permit for the project;
  (2) Any other owner of a standard housing unit or units deemed qualified by the authority; and
  (3) The authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 356D-152
• In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institute: means the criminal justice research institute. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 614-1
• Insured work: means employment for employers. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Issuing court: means the court that issues a Canadian domestic-violence protection order. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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.
• Labor: means the period of time before a birth during which contractions are of sufficient frequency, intensity, and duration to bring about effacement and progressive dilation of the cervix. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121
• Law enforcement officer: means an individual authorized by law of this State other than this chapter to enforce a domestic protection order. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means any license, certification, registration, or permit issued by a licensing authority for recreational purposes, or to conduct a trade or business, including a license to practice a profession or vocation, or a license to operate any motor vehicle, boat, airplane, or helicopter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Licensed health care practitioner: includes dentists licensed under chapter 448, physicians licensed under chapter 453, physician assistants licensed under chapter 453, and advanced practice registered nurses licensed under chapter 457. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 577D-1
• Licensing authority: means any unit of the State or county government, including agencies, departments, boards, commissions, or authorities, or any other entity within the State or county authorized by statute to grant or deny licenses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Marine life: means any type or species of saltwater fish, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, coral, or other marine animals, including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof; or seaweeds or other marine plants, including any part, product, seed, or root thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Minor without support: means a person who is at least fourteen years of age but less than eighteen years of age who is not under the care, supervision, or control of a parent, custodian, or legal guardian. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 577D-1
• Mobile application: means a type of application software designed to run on a mobile electronic device, such as a smartphone or tablet computer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-101
• 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.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• oath: includes a solemn affirmation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-21
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Obligee: means any person to whom payments are required to be made under the terms of a court or administrative order for child support, or child support and spousal support. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Obligor: means a responsible parent obligated by court or administrative order to pay child support. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Office: means the office of child support hearings established pursuant to § 576E-10. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Official court reporter: means a certified shorthand reporter employed by the courts of the State to provide court reporting services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 606-13.5
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Order of support: means a judgment, decree, or order, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued by a court or an administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, for the support and maintenance of a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state, or a child and the parent with whom the child is living, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, or reimbursement, and which may include related costs and fees, interest and penalties, income withholding, attorney's fees, and other relief. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means any person subject to chapter 179D who has a right, title, or interest in or to the dam or reservoir or to the property upon which the dam, reservoir, or appurtenant works are located or proposed to be located. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Owner-employee: means a person who has performed services for an employing unit as defined in this section, and who is or has been a shareholder owning twenty-five per cent or more of the corporation's common stock, and director or officer, or both, of a corporation which is or was the employing unit or who exercises a substantial degree of control over the direction of corporate activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• parent and child relationship: includes the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's natural mother, between a child and father whose relationship as parent and child is established under this chapter, or between a child and the child's adoptive parents, incident to which the law confers or imposes rights, privileges, duties, and obligations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 584-1
• partially unemployed: means the unemployment of any individual who, during a particular week, was still attached to that individual's regular employer, had no earnings or earned less than that individual's weekly benefit amount, and who worked less than or did not work that individual's normal, customary full-time hours for the individual's regular employer because of a lack of full-time work. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• 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.
• Party: means each person or agency named or admitted as a party or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party in any court or agency proceeding. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 356D-91
• Party: means each person or agency named or admitted as a party, or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party, including but not limited to the custodial parent and the responsible parent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Person: means one or more individuals, and includes, but is not limited to, a partnership, association, or corporation, legal representative, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, or the State or any of its political subdivisions. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-26
• Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Personal communication device: means a device allowing for electronic communication, including a mobile phone and tablet, that is not owned, or the cost of which is not reimbursed, by the employer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 378-101
• Personal injury: includes death resulting therefrom. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• persons: means an individual, firm, enterprise, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative or other legal entity, governmental body or agency, board, bureau or other instrumentality thereof, or any combination of the foregoing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Physician: includes a doctor of medicine, a dentist, a chiropractor, an osteopath, a naturopathic physician, a psychologist, an optometrist, an advanced practice registered nurse, and a podiatrist. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Police officer: means any public servant, whether employed by the State or any county, or by the United States, vested by law with a duty to maintain public order, to make arrests for offenses, or to enforce the criminal laws, whether that duty extends to all offenses or is limited to a specific class of offenses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1
• Police station: means a facility where police officers report for assignments, paperwork, and other police business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1
• Postpartum recovery: means :

  (1) The entire period a female is in a hospital, birthing center, or clinic after giving birth; and

  (2) An additional time period, if any, a treating physician determines is necessary for healing after the female leaves the hospital, birthing center, or clinic. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121

• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Primary medical care and services: means health services that include screening, counseling, immunizations, medication, and treatment of illnesses and medical conditions customarily provided by licensed health care practitioners in an outpatient setting. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 577D-1
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Project: means any combination of land, buildings, and other improvements thereon, including without limitation irrigation systems and infrastructure, for use of, or for, or to assist an agricultural enterprise, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, machinery, equipment, furnishings, and apparatus that are deemed necessary, suitable, or useful to the enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project: means any work on a dam, reservoir, or appurtenant works necessary to maintain or improve the dam, reservoir, or appurtenant works. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist an agricultural enterprise, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project agreement: means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party to finance, construct, operate, or maintain a project from the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds, or to lend the proceeds of special purpose revenue bonds to assist dam and reservoir owners, including without limitation any loan agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Project party: means a person, firm, or corporation qualified to do business in this State and conducting or proposing to conduct an agricultural enterprise. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-311
• Project party: means a person or persons who are dam and reservoir owners. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protected individual: means an individual protected by a Canadian domestic-violence protection order. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Psychologist: means a licensed clinical psychologist with a doctorate degree in psychology and who either has at least two years clinical experience in a recognized health setting, or has met the standards of the National Register of the Health Service Providers in Psychology. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Public assistance: means any cash paid or medical assistance provided by the department of human services to or for the benefit of any dependent child, including amounts paid to or on behalf of the child's custodian. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Qualified aquaculturist: means a person, or association of persons, actively engaged in aquaculture farming, aquaculture produce processing, or aquaculture product development activities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• qualified tenant: means any single person or family, pursuant to criteria and procedures established by the authority, who has been determined to have an income not exceeding the income limit as determined by the authority pursuant to rules adopted by the authority; provided that the income limit shall not exceed ninety-five per cent of the annual median income as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; provided further that the qualified tenant's primary place of residence shall be in the State or the qualified tenant intends to make the State the qualified tenant's primary place of residence. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 356D-153
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recipient of social service payments: includes :

  (1) A person who is an eligible recipient of social services such as attendant care and day care services; and

  (2) A corporation or private agency that contracts directly with the department of human services to provide attendant care and day care authorized under the Social Security Act, as amended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1

• Recipient of social service payments: includes :

  (1) A person who is an eligible recipient of social services such as attendant care and day care services; and

  (2) A corporation or private agency that contracts directly with the department of human services to provide attendant care and day care authorized under the Social Security Act, as amended. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1

• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Reentry programs: include programs that are located within a correctional facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353H-2
• Referee: means the referee for unemployment compensation appeals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• registration for work: means that an individual shall provide information to the employment office to be posted on the department's internet job-matching system, including the individual's name, job skills, education, training, prior employment history and work duties, preferred working conditions, occupational licenses, and other relevant occupational information to facilitate work search efforts by the individual and increase job referrals by the employment office. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Reservoir: means any basin that contains or will contain water impounded by a dam, including appurtenant works. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 39A-341
• Respondent: means an individual against whom a Canadian domestic-violence protection order is issued. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Responsible parent: means any person who does not have physical custody of the child and who has a legal duty of support. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restraints: means anything used to control the movement of a person's body or limbs and includes:

  (1) Physical restraint; or

  (2) A mechanical device, including metal handcuffs, plastic ties, ankle restraints, leather cuffs, other hospital-type restraints, tasers, or batons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121

• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Shark: means any member of the class Chondrichthyes, including but not limited to: inshore species of galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis), reef blacktip shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus), gray reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), big-nosed shark (Carcharhinus altimus), tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena), reef whitetip shark (Triaenodon obesus), scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), offshore species of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis), blue shark (Prionace glauca), whale shark (Rhincodon typus), thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus), oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), cookie cutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), and megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Spousal support: means a legally enforceable obligation assessed against an individual for the support of a spouse or a former spouse who is living with a child or children for whom the individual also owes support. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• State: includes a federally recognized Indian tribe. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Suitable gainful employment: means employment or self-employment within the geographical area where the employee resides, which is reasonably attainable and which offers an opportunity to restore the employee's earnings capacity as nearly as possible to that level which the employee was earning at the time of injury and to return the employee to the active labor force as quickly as possible in a cost-effective manner, giving due consideration to the employee's qualifications, interests, incentives, future earnings capacity, and the present and future labor market. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Support order: means an obligation determined by a court or duly authorized administrative agency, for the maintenance of a dependent child, which is owed to or on behalf of the child, or to the parent or custodian with whom the child is living. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Tenant: means any person occupying a dwelling accommodation or living quarters in any public housing project, under or by virtue of any tenancy, lease, or rental agreement under or from the authority. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 356D-91
• tenant: shall include a person or family who satisfies the foregoing requirements and is a member of a cooperative who, upon resale of the member's membership to the cooperative, will not be reimbursed for more than fifty per cent of any equity increment accumulated through payments under this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 356D-153
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• to fish: means catching, taking, or harvesting, or attempting to catch, take, or harvest, aquatic life. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 187A-1
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transport: means the conveyance, by any means, of a committed person from the correctional facility to another location, including travel to and from a transport vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 353-121
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trial jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
• Tribunal: means a court, agency, or other entity authorized by law of this State other than this chapter to establish, enforce, or modify a domestic protection order. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 586C-2
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unharmed condition: means no evidence of injury to a newborn child's physical or psychological health or welfare, as evidenced in any case where:

  (1) The newborn child is alive and exhibits no:

  (A) Substantial or multiple skin bruising or any other internal bleeding;

  (B) Injury to skin causing substantial bleeding;

  (C) Malnutrition;

  (D) Failure to thrive;

  (E) Burn or burns;

  (F) Poisoning;

  (G) Fracture of any bone;

  (H) Subdural hematoma;

  (I) Soft tissue swelling;

  (J) Extreme pain;

  (K) Extreme mental distress; or

  (L) Gross degradation;

  (2) The newborn child has not been the victim of:

  (A) Sexual contact or conduct, including rape, sodomy, molestation, sexual fondling, or incest;

  (B) Obscene or pornographic photographing, filming, or depiction; or

  (C) Other similar forms of sexual exploitation;

  (3) Injury does not exist to the psychological capacity of a child as evidenced by a substantial impairment in the child's ability to function;

  (4) The child has been provided in a timely manner with adequate food, clothing, shelter, psychological care, physical care, medical care, and supervision; or

  (5) The child has not been provided with dangerous, harmful, or detrimental drugs, as defined by section 712-1240; except in cases where a child's family provides the drugs to the child pursuant to the direction or prescription of a practitioner, as defined in section 712-1240. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 587D-1

• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Uniform statewide procedures: means a written set of instructions prepared by the agency which describe step by step actions to be taken by agency personnel in the performance of duties under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 576E-1
• United States: includes the states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and, after December 31 of the year in which the Secretary of Labor approves for the first time an unemployment insurance law of the Virgin Islands submitted to the Secretary of Labor for approval, the term "United States" shall also include the Virgin Islands. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-2
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Wages: means all remuneration for services constituting employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• wages: as used in this part does not include remuneration in excess of $13,000 paid with respect to employment to an individual by an employer so long as the balance of the unemployment trust fund does not fall below the adequate reserve fund as specified by § 383-63. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-61
• Week: means a period of seven consecutive calendar days commencing with Sunday and ending at midnight the following Saturday. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Week of unemployment: means a week in which an individual is deemed unemployed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Weeks of employment: means all those weeks within each of which the individual has performed services in employment for not less than two days or four hours per week for one or more employers subject to this chapter or with respect to which the individual has received remuneration from one or more employers subject to this chapter in the form of vacation, holiday, or sickness pay or similar remuneration. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 383-1
• Work injury: means a personal injury suffered under the conditions specified in § 386-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 386-1
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.