 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1854 - 750 str.
...doing of it as a duty, for the omission of which they are punishable. Sed non alloeatur; 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 H. 6 says the sheriff may take bail; this is construed shall, for, he... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1855 - 774 str.
...; Duval, Le Droit dans ses Maximes. MAY. To be permitted; to be at liberty ; to have the power. 2. Whenever a statute directs the doing of a thing for...word may is the same as shall. For example, the 23 H. VI. says, the sheriff may take bail, that is construed he shall, for he is compellable to do so. Garth.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - 1846 - 1156 str.
...of »• it as a duty, for the omission of which they are punishable. Sed non allocatur ; 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 H. 6 says the sheriff may take bail ; this is construed s/io//,for,he... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 str.
...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... | |
 | United States. Attorney-General - 1858 - 600 str.
...in the case of a public officer, is tantamount to shall;" nor that, as the case in Salkeld has it, whenever "a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice, or of the public good, the word may is the same as the word shall. Each of these great magistrates well... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1861 - 586 str.
...Reg. v. Burton, 2 Salk. 209, when a statute directs (the better word would perhaps be authorises), the doing of a thing for the sake of justice or the public good, the word " may" is the same as the word " shall;" a principle of interpretation which seems peculiarly applicable to the case of the... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1861 - 582 str.
...Salk. 209, when a statute directs (the better word would perhaps be authorises], the doing of a tiling for the sake of justice or the public good, the word " may" is the same as the word " shall ;" a principle of interpretation which seems peculiarly applicable to the case of... | |
 | Edward Parkyns Levinge - 1862 - 844 str.
...legal and regular (/). In most cases a JP is imperatively called upon to act ; and generally where the statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake...the public good, the word may is the same as shall, and is imperative on the justice to proceed (g). When, statute applicable to Ireland.] Magistrates... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1867 - 732 str.
...there was an indictment upon the same statute, and the same objection was taken. The court said: "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: thus, 23 Hon. VI, says the sheriff may take bail. This is construed he shall, for he... | |
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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; 
