directory statutory provisions
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 506 - French v. Edwards · 1871Most cited · 235 citing opinions
Such generally are regulations designed to secure order, system, and dispatch in proceedings, and by a disregard of which the rights of parties interested cannot be injuriously affected. Provisions of this character are not usually regarded as mandatory unless accompanied by negative words importing that the acts required shall not be done in any other manner or time than that designated.
How often courts cite the case defining “directory statutory provisions”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “directory statutory provisions” — 235 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.