 | New York (State). Department of Public Instruction, John Adams Dix - 1837 - 494 pagina’s
...their neglect to do it within that time. The general rule is, that " where a statute specifies the time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the language... | |
 | New York (State). Department of Public Instruction, John Adams Dix - 1837 - 496 pagina’s
...officer is to perform an official act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the language used by the legislature shows that the designation of the time was intended as a limitation... | |
 | 1838 - 700 pagina’s
...public officer is to perform an official act re garding the rights and duties of others, is di rectory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the phraseolpgy of the statute is such, that the designation of time must be con sidered as a limitation... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1876 - 650 pagina’s
...January. Did this forfeit his right to the office? The general rule is, that where a statute specifies the time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory, merely, unless the act to be performed, or the language used by... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 pagina’s
...the decision of this question, laid down the general rule to be, that where a statute specifies the time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the language used... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1852 - 560 pagina’s
...was not legalty convened. The court, in deciding the case, say, that " when a statute specifies the time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act 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... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pagina’s
...limitation ; and the Court proceeded to add, " The general rule is, that where a statute specifies the time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the language... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - 1857 - 834 pagina’s
...кг", and vacates the office. Payne ». San Francisco, 3 Cal. 122. 7. When a statute spécules the eretofore decided against the Mexican Government, which may have arisen pre th« rights and duties of others, it Is directory merely, unless it appears that the designation of... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1859 - 574 pagina’s
...the act ; and it is a general rule in the construction of statutes, that when a statute specifies the time within which a public officer is to perform an...official act regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory merely, and not mandatory or jurisdictional, unless the nature of... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1867 - 664 pagina’s
...is, as stated by MABCT, J., in The People v. Allen (6 Wend, 486), that " where a statute specifies a time within which a public officer is to perform...official act, regarding the rights and duties of others, it will be considered as directory merely, unless the nature of the act to be performed, or the language... | |
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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... 
