Allied Fidelity Ins. Co. v. State

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• \may\ will be deemed obligatory where a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice
• “[T]he permissive word “may” will be deemed to be obligatory ‘[w]here a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice....’”
• \[A]n axiom of statutory construction [is] that an interpretation of a statute which leads to an unreasonable or ridiculous conclusion or a result obviously not designed by the Legislature will not be adopted.\
• “[T]he ' permissive word “may” will be deemed to be obligatory ‘[wjhere a statute directs the doing of a thing for the sake of justice.... ’ ”
• Case Nos. 81-2052, 81-2127, 81-2128 & 81-2129, opinion filed June 15, 1982
• “[W]here ‘shall’ refers to some required action preceding a possible deprivation of a substantive right, or the imposition of a legislatively-intended penalty, or action to be taken for the public benefit, it is held to be mandatory.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).