2009 Hawaii Code
Volume 12
TITLE 29 - DECEDENTS' ESTATES
CHAPTER 532 - DESCENT OF PROPERTY
§532-1 - Issue includes whom.
§532-1 Issue includes whom. The word "issue," as used in this chapter, includes all the lawful lineal descendants of the ancestor. [CC 1859, §1462; RL 1925, §3304; RL 1935, §4812; RL 1945, §12072; RL 1955, §318-1; HRS §532-1]
Case Notes
Includes adopted child. 26 H. 439. "Issue" as used in will includes adopted child. 35 H. 104, aff'd 115 F.2d 956; 42 H. 640; 49 H. 273, 414 P.2d 925; see also 42 H. 129. Does not include illegitimate child. 20 H. 722. "Issue by me begotten" does not include grandchildren. 29 H. 278. "Keiki" construed as descendant of any generation, according to the context. 47 H. 610, 393 P.2d 753.
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