2014 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Common Law; Construction of Laws
1-18 "Or", "and".
§1-18 "Or", "and". Each of the terms "or" and "and", has the meaning of the other or of both. [PC 1869, c 1, §4; RL 1925, §15; RL 1935, §16; RL 1945, §15; am L 1945, c 233, §2; RL 1955, §1-23; HRS §1-18]
Case Notes
Applied: 230 F. Supp. 455; 17 H. 135, 141; 34 H. 935, 941.
"And" deemed conjunctive, not alternative. 33 H. 98, 101.
"Or" deemed alternative, not conjunctive, penal statute. 44 H. 601, 604, 359 P.2d 289.
Applied in substituting "and" for "or" in public accountancy statute. 51 H. 80, 452 P.2d 94.
"Or" deemed "and". 54 H. 356, 507 P.2d 169.
Use of word "and" is not necessarily decisive. 56 H. 675, 548 P.2d 268.
Cited: 52 F.2d 411, 414; 5 H. 52, 53; 19 H. 393, 397.
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