DEFINITIONS

As used in these Rules unless context requires otherwise: Assistant Registrar means the registrar of the bureau of conveyances, appointed in accordance with Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, Section 502-1, and the registrar's deputy and such other assistants as may be sworn before the judge. Certificate means a certificate of title showing the owner's name, a description of the land and a summary of encumbrances affecting the land, if any. File, filed or filing means to accept, maintain and preserve any instrument required to be filed conventionally or electronically. HRS means Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes. Instrument means a document lawfully affecting title or a map that is required by law to be registered, recorded or filed with the land court or the assistant registrar. Judge means the administrative judge of the circuit court of the First Circuit, civil division, or a judge of the circuit court of the First Circuit assigned by the administrative judge to preside over or dispose of land court matters pursuant to Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, Section 501-2. Land means land, title to which is lawfully registered in the land court. Record, recorded, or recording means the act of entering into the public records the written instruments affecting title to real property. (Added November 6, 2019, effective November 17, 2019.)