 | Henry Humphreys - Criminal law - 1867 - 448 pages
...ESTABLISHED MAXIMS TO BE OBSERVED in the CONSTRUING of STATUTES and ADMINISTRATION of the LAW.* Where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake...justice or the public good, the word may is the same as the word shall. The rules even of grammar and logic are overlooked, when the intention of the parties... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1869 - 812 pages
...obligatory, and they were not punishable fur neglecting it. The Court held otherwise, observing that when a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake...justice or the public good, the word may is the same as the word shall. 2 Sulk., 609; jCarth, 293. And it waa added that, when a statute says a sheriff way... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 820 pages
...relates to the public or third persons. Thus, in Rex and Regina i,. Barlow, 2 Salkeld, 609 : " Where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake...or the public good, the word 'may' is the same as the word 'shall;' thus, 23 Hen. VI. says the sheriff may take bail ; this is construed he shall, for... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1870 - 900 pages
...MAT. Is permitted to; hag liberty to. it. Whenever a statute directs the doing of a thin? for the pake of justice or the public good, the word may is the same as shall. For example, the 23 II. VI. says the sheriff may take bail ; that is construed be shall, for he is compellable to do so.... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 788 pages
...work on " Statutes," says (p. 604):—"Words of permission shall in certain cases be obligatory. Where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice, the word may means the same as the word shall; so if a statute says a thing may be done which is for... | |
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 554 pages
...section referred to. " Words of permission," says Dwarrix, " shall, in certain cases, be obligatory. When a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice, the word may means the same as the word sltall." And again, " the words it xltall be latrful are imperative,... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 542 pages
...to be presumed the legislature designed the statute to talce effect, and not to be a nullity. Where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake...or the public good, the word "may" is the same as the word "shall." The words shall or may are to be construed as imperative in all cases where a public... | |
 | William Henry Browne - Industrial laws and legislation - 1873 - 720 pages
...in the mouth. § 307. The word "may" in this section should read "shall" this being a statute which directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice or the public good, and to impose a positive and absolute duty. 1 The party, therefore, shall receive protection, provided... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 802 pages
...they are punishable. Sed non allocatur; for, where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the Bake of justice or the public good, the word ' may' is the same as the word ' shall;' thus 23 Henry VI says the sheriff may take bail; this is const rued he shall, for... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...power by the word " may" and did not require the doing it as a duty. " Sed non attocatur ; for where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake...justice, or the public good, the word may is the same as the word shall: thus, the 23 Hen. VI says the sheriff may take bail ; this is construed shall, for... | |
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Where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice or the public good, the word 'may' is the same as the word 'shall; 
