Emma B. C. Thompson v. Richard Roe

How courts have described this case

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• regarding the construction of “may’ as “must”: “It is only where it is necessary to give effect to the clear policy and intention of the Legislature, that such a liberty can be taken with the plain words of a statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).