 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 762 pages
...registered, to determine upon the validity of the registration proceedings. It has been repeatedly decided, that where a statute specifies the time within which a public officer is to perform an act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be construed as directory merely, unless the... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 602 pages
...it may not be done afterwards. In other words, as the cases universally hold, a statute specifying a time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others is directory, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the phraseology of the statute, is such... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 632 pages
...clearly comes within the rule laid down in People v. Allen, 6 Wend., 486. Where the statute specifies a time within which a public officer is to perform an...as directory merely, unless the nature of the act required to be performed, or the language used by the legislature show that the designation of time... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 696 pages
...that the court martial was not legally convened. The court, in decidinr the case, say, that "when the statute specifies the time within which a public officer...regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be regarded as directory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed or the language used show... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1124 pages
...Construction, ยง 612 (2d Ed.), it said: "In other words, as the cases universally hold, a statute specifying a time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others Is directory, unless the nature of the act to be performed or the phraseology of the statute is such... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 694 pages
...v. The City of Greensburgh, 60 Ind. 1. In The People v. Allen, 6 Wend. 486, this language was used : "Where a statute specifies the time within which a...rights and duties of others, it will be considered directory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the language used by the Legislature,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1164 pages
...It may not be done afterwards. In other words, as the cases universally hold, a statute specifying a time within which a public officer Is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others is directory, uuJess the nature of the act to be performed, or the phraseology of the statute, is such... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1168 pages
...submitted than the provision prescribing that the public officer should act within a certain time? "Where a statute specifies the time within which a public officer Is to perform an official act affecting the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory merely, unless the nature... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1338 pages
...207, and authorities there cited. It is said in Cyc. vol. 36, p. 1160, that "the statute specifying a time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others is directory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the phraseology of the statute,... | |
 | Budget - 1887 - 1006 pages
...The rule is that when a statute specifies the time within -vhich a public officer is to perform an act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as di. rectory merely, unless the nature of the act to be reviewed, or the language of the Statute, shows... | |
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In other words, as the cases universally hold, a statute specifying a time within which a public officer is to perform an official act regarding the rights and duties of others is directory... 
