Board of Supervisors v. Weems

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[u]nless it is manifest that the purpose of the legislature was to use the word ‘may’ in the sense of‘shall’ or ‘must’ then ‘may’ should be given its ordinary meaning — -permission importing discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).