Poulson v. Union National Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• “The General Assembly’s use of the term ‘may’ in this context rather than ‘shall’ is significant. ‘May’ is a permissive term and gives a trial court discretion[.]”
• “‘May’ ordinarily connotes discretion or permission; and it will not be treated as a word of command unless there is something in the context or subject matter of the act or statute under consideration to indicate that it was used in that sense.”
• “‘May’ ordinarily connotes discretion or permission; and it will not be treated as a word of command unless there is something in the context or subject matter of the act or statute under consideration to indicate that it was used in that sense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).