In re State to Register Title to Real Property Situate at Moilili

*538OPINION OP THE COURT BY

WIRTZ, J.

This is an appeal from the decree of the land court entered in Land Court Application No. 327, registering title in the State of Hawaii to a 74,530 square foot parcel (1.73 acres) of land in Moiliili, Waikiki, Oahu, claimed as a schoolhouse site under School Grant No. 27, Royal Patent No. 27, pursuant to the “School Lands Act of 1850.” Respondent-appellant, the Minnie Becker Trust Estate,1 claimed title to a 14,885 square foot portion thereof as being a part of the Ili of Maulukikepa granted to Enlama and Nakookoo under the Mahele, or land division of…