Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 172-7

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • 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.

The comptroller shall prepare a list of all ahupuaas, iliainas, and leles within the State (including those owned by the government), on which there has been no legal description of survey determined by metes and bounds, either by incorporation of same in land commission award, or patent in confirmation of award, or patent grant, or government deed, or deed of the commissioners of crown lands, or land court survey, or certificate of boundaries, or by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction of the State.