Mandatory

Containing a command; preceptive; imperative; peremptory. A provision in a statute is mandatory when disobedience to it will make the act done under the statute absolutely void; if the provision is such that disregard of it will constitute an irregularity, but one not necessarily fatal, it is said to be directory. So, the mandatory part of a writ is that which commands the person to do the act specified.

— Mandatory injunction. See Injunction.

He to whom a mandate, charge or commandment is given; also, he that obtains a benefice by mandamus. Briggs v. Spaulding, 141 U. S. 132, 11 Sup. Ct. 924, 35 L. Ed. 662.