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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 558-6

  • 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
  • Dower: A widow
  • Recorded instrument: means any conveyance, deed, mortgage, lease assignment, or other instrument relating to this chapter and duly executed and recorded with the bureau of conveyances or the land court of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 558-3
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Any person dealing with the trustee under the recorded instrument shall take any interest transferred by the trustee free and clear of the claims of all the beneficiaries of the trust, and of any unrecorded separate declarations or agreements collateral to the recorded instrument whether referred to in the recorded instrument or not, and of anyone claiming by, through or under such beneficiaries including, and without limiting the foregoing to, any claim arising out of any dower or curtesy interest of the spouse of any beneficiary thereof; provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the beneficiary of any unrecorded collateral declarations or agreements from enforcing the terms of the unrecorded collateral declarations or agreements against the trustee.