09-19-2018, 10:03 AM
The letter referenced above would have bearing only if Jen thought that all of the land she was representing was illegal obtained, which would be a wrong assumption.
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I am the second owner after the King.
Here's a little more info expanding on what Carey and Rob posted, about the Great Mahele. It was the Hawaiian Kingdom that willingly divided the land, and set up record keeping for ownership. This occurred 45 years before the Queen abdicated her throne. Some of the land today is managed by DHHL, and in a way OHA.
The Great Mahele (great land division) occurred in 1848. The King and 245 ali`i and konohiki came together to divide the land. In a process that took several months, the land was divided into three classifications. Of the approximate four million acres in Hawai`i, the king reserved one million acres for himself and his family. These were called crown lands. Of the remaining three million acres, approximately half were designated as Government Lands and the other half was given to the ali`i and konohiki and which became known as Konohiki Lands.
The record of the distribution of lands in the three classifications was set forth in the Mahele Book. The Great Mahele is the single most important event in the history of land title in Hawai`i. It essentially abolished the feudal system and gave rise to an allodial system of land tenure. Private ownership of most of the property in Hawai`i began with the Great Mahele.
http://files.hawaii.gov/dcca/reb/real_ed...hawaii.pdf
If there hadn't been a Great Mahele, and the Hawaiian Kingdom had ruled without interruption, it's possible the average Hawaiian would still be living and toiling on the King or Queen's land, even today.
“It's tremendously big and tremendously wet, tremendous amounts of water.”
"The wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water." President Donald J. Trump describing an active hurricane on Tue, Sept 11, 2018 & Sept 18, 2018
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I am the second owner after the King.
Here's a little more info expanding on what Carey and Rob posted, about the Great Mahele. It was the Hawaiian Kingdom that willingly divided the land, and set up record keeping for ownership. This occurred 45 years before the Queen abdicated her throne. Some of the land today is managed by DHHL, and in a way OHA.
The Great Mahele (great land division) occurred in 1848. The King and 245 ali`i and konohiki came together to divide the land. In a process that took several months, the land was divided into three classifications. Of the approximate four million acres in Hawai`i, the king reserved one million acres for himself and his family. These were called crown lands. Of the remaining three million acres, approximately half were designated as Government Lands and the other half was given to the ali`i and konohiki and which became known as Konohiki Lands.
The record of the distribution of lands in the three classifications was set forth in the Mahele Book. The Great Mahele is the single most important event in the history of land title in Hawai`i. It essentially abolished the feudal system and gave rise to an allodial system of land tenure. Private ownership of most of the property in Hawai`i began with the Great Mahele.
http://files.hawaii.gov/dcca/reb/real_ed...hawaii.pdf
If there hadn't been a Great Mahele, and the Hawaiian Kingdom had ruled without interruption, it's possible the average Hawaiian would still be living and toiling on the King or Queen's land, even today.
“It's tremendously big and tremendously wet, tremendous amounts of water.”
"The wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water." President Donald J. Trump describing an active hurricane on Tue, Sept 11, 2018 & Sept 18, 2018
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves