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2019 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 29. DECEDENTS' ESTATES
532. Descent of Property
532-1 Issue includes whom.
Universal Citation: HI Rev Stat § 532-1 (2019)
§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
Does not include illegitimate child. 20 H. 722 (1911).
Includes adopted child. 26 H. 439 (1922).
"Issue by me begotten" does not include grandchildren. 29 H. 278 (1926).
"Issue" as used in will includes adopted child. 35 H. 104 (1939), aff'd 115 F.2d 956 (1940); 42 H. 640 (1958); 49 H. 273, 414 P.2d 925 (1966); see also 42 H. 129 (1957).
"Keiki" construed as descendant of any generation, according to the context. 47 H. 610, 393 P.2d 753 (1964).
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