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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 533-3

  • Dower: A widow
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.

Where any person seised of lands, as aforesaid, has executed a mortgage of the lands before marriage, the widow shall, nevertheless, be entitled to dower out of the lands mortgaged, as against every person except the mortgagee and those claiming under him.