Gray v. Administrative Director of Court

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

• observing that “[t]he word ‘shall’ is generally construed as mandatory in legal acceptation” (quoting In re Adoption of Watson, 45 Haw. 69, 79, 361 P.2d 1054, 1059 (1961))
• defining \shall\ in the words of a statute to mean \has a duty to\
• determining the meaning of the ambiguous words in a statute by “examining the context, with which the ambiguous words, phrases, and sentences may be compared, in order to ascertain their true meaning”
• “[T]he legislature is presumed not to intend an absurd result, and legislation will be construed to avoid, if possible, inconsistency, contradiction, and illogicality.”
• “The word ‘shall’ is generally construed as mandatory in legal acceptation.” (Quoting In re Adoption of Watson, 45 Haw. 69, 79, 361 P.2d 1054, 1059 (1961).)
• in construing an ambiguous statute, “ ‘the meaning of the ambiguous words may be sought by examining the context, with which the ambiguous words, phrases, and sentences may be compared, in order to ascertain their true meaning’ ” (brackets and block quote format omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).