Shall

The various meanings of this word range under two general classes according as it is used as implying futurity or implying a mandate; the words shall be born in a will in the absence of a context are words of futurity; 6 App. Cas. 471; and where a statute declares a thing shall be done, it is a peremptory mandate; Stroud, L. Diet., which see for a classification of cases in which the word has been held to be used in a directory, and others in which it is used in a peremptory, sense. It is held that it is to be construed as may, unless a contrary intention is shown; Cairo & Fulton R. Co. v. Ilecht, 95 U. S. 170, 24 L. Ed. 423.