As used in this chapter:
(a) “Alienation” means the sale, gift, exchange, or any other method of disposal of property.
(b) “Freehold lands”, means all those lands included in court grants prior to 1900 which have not at the request of the owner, been returned to the status of other land in American Samoa surrendering their freehold characteristics.
(c) “Native” means a full-blooded Samoan person of Tutuila, Manu’a, Aunu’u, or Swains Island.
(d) “Native land” means communal land.
(e) “Nonnative” means any person who is not a native under subsection (c) above.
History: 1949 code § 12-80; readopted 1980, PL16-88 §§ 1,2; 1982, PL 17-31 §§ 1,2; 1999 PL 26-6.