Reason: Speaking as a Hawaiian, all the wives of my several brothers are my wives as well as theirs. As it would be impossible for me to distinguish my own children from those of my brothers, if I call any one my child, I must call them all my children. One is as likely to be mine as another.
II. All the grandchildren of my several brothers are my grandchildren.
Reason: They are the children of my sons and daughters.
III. With myself a female the foregoing relationships are the same.
This is purely a question of relationship by marriage. My several brothers being my husbands, their children by other wives would be my step-children, which relationship being unrecognized, they naturally fall into the category of my sons and daughters. Otherwise they would pass without the system. Among ourselves a step-mother is called mother, and a step-son a son.
IV. All the children of my several sisters, own and collateral, myself a male, are my sons and daughters.
Reason: All my sisters are my wives, as well as the wives of my several brothers.
V. All the grandchildren of my several sisters are my grandchildren.
Reason: They are the children of my sons and daughters.
VI. All the children of my several sisters, myself a female, are my sons and daughters.