 Cas. 191) has been followed by others, * * * which we think support the rule that when a statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized to exercise the authority when the case arises, and its...  The Canadian Law Times - Page 4171901Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 1008 pages
...confers an authority to do a judicial Act in a certain ease, it is imperative on those so authorised to exercise the authority when the case arises, and...duly applied for by a party interested, and having the right to make the application. For these reasons, we are of opinion, that the word "may" is not... | |
 | Edward Wise - Procedure (Law) - 1852 - 394 pages
...fall within the rule that, when a statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized to exercise...duly applied for by a party interested, and having the right to make the application. (Macdougall v. Paterson, 21 LJ 27, €. P; Crake v. Powell, 21L.J.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 1052 pages
...support the rule, that when a statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized to exercise...duly applied for by a party interested and having the right to make the application. For these reasons, we are of opinion that the word "may" is not... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - Equity - 1852 - 690 pages
...when a Maedougall v. Paterson. statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized to exercise...duly applied for by a party interested and having the right to make the application. For these reasons, we are of opinion, that the word " may" is not... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 750 pages
...support the rule, that, when a statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized, to exercise...duly applied for by a party interested, and having the right to make the application. [*773 For these reasons, we are of opinion, that the word " may"... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...and the court said that " when a statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized to exercise...duly applied for by a party interested and having the right to make the application ; that the word may is not used to give a discretion, but to confer... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1156 pages
...support the rule, that,. when a statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized, to exercise...duly applied for by a party interested, and having the right to make the application. For these reasons, we are of opinion, that the word " may" is not... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 700 pages
...and the Court said that when a statute confers an authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorized to exercise...interested and having a right to make the application ; that the word may is not used to give a discretion, but to confer a power upon the Court and judges;... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1861 - 582 pages
...confers an "authority to do a judicial act in a certain case, it is imperative on those so authorised to exercise the authority when the case arises, and...duly applied for by a party interested, and having the right to make the application." In this prosecution the case has arisen, the guilty party has been... | |
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