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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 4 U.S. 218 - Fitzgerald v. Caldwell's executors · 1802Most cited · 4 citing opinions
statutory duty
The act of making such advertisements, is the duty of the sheriff; it is a matter merely directory; and, unless an actual injury has been sustained by an omission, it would be hard, indeed, that it should affect the title of a bona fide purchaser.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “directory” — 9 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.