§1-19  "Person","others", "any", etc.  The word "person", orwords importing persons, for instance, "another", "others","any", "anyone", "anybody", and the like, signifynot only individuals, but corporations, firms, associations, societies,communities, assemblies, inhabitants of a district, or neighborhood, or personsknown or unknown, and the public generally, where it appears, from the subjectmatter, the sense and connection in which such words are used, that suchconstruction 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

 

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

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