§1-19  "Person," "others," "any," etc.  The word "person," or words importing persons, for instance, "another," "others," "any," "anyone," "anybody," and the like, signify not only individuals, but corporations, firms, associations, societies, communities, assemblies, inhabitants of a district, or neighborhood, or persons known or unknown, and the public generally, where it appears, from the subject matter, the sense and connection in which such words are used, that such construction is intended. [CC 1859, §17; RL 1925, §16; RL 1935, §17; am L 1939, c 150, §1; RL 1945, §16; am L 1945, c 233, §3; am L 1955, c 57, §1(e); RL 1955, §1-24; HRS §1-19]

 

Case Notes

 

  Applicability of various statutes to counties discussed, counties as "corporations."  17 H. 9, 14.  Municipal corporation subject to garnishment as a "person."  23 H. 564, 568.

  Though "person" includes corporation, term "corporation" held not to include an individual.  22 H. 660, 662.